Settlement Site Hints at Mass Cannibalism [Germany 7,000 years ago]

Discovery News ^ | Friday, December 4, 2009 | Bruce Bower, Science News

[SunkenCiv]

At a settlement in what is now southern Germany, the menu turned gruesome 7,000 years ago. Over a period of perhaps a few decades, hundreds of people were butchered and eaten before parts of their bodies were thrown into oval pits, a new study suggests. Cannibalism at the village, now called Herxheim, may have occurred during ceremonies in which people from near and far brought slaves, war prisoners or other dependents for ritual sacrifice, propose anthropologist Bruno Boulestin of the University of Bordeaux... A social and political crisis in central Europe at that time triggered various forms of violence, the researchers suspect... during Europe's early Neolithic period, when farming first spread... facial bones were smashed beyond recognition

[frithguild]

So the French guy thinks he found evidence of canibalism in Germany and the German guy retorts that the only evidence of neolithic canibalism is in France. Hmmm...

[Little Bill]

My, my, were these the Gaea Worshipers that Marja Gumbutis(sp) and her Ilk claimed to live in peace and harmony, in a female dominated society, that was of course, before we, White Male, Kurgan, IndoEuropean speaking thugs broke up all the fun.

In incredulity of the Archaeological class never ceases to amaze me.

[TheOldLady]

;-)

[blam]

........Burp!

[Tainan]

...tastes like chicken....even then.

[SunkenCiv]

I’m glad someone plucked up the courage to say that.

[SunkenCiv]

Sounds like you had that third helping of a treasure hunting adventurer, even though we told ya not to, and have developed a case of Indy gestion.

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[SunkenCiv]

If this dig had taken place in Italy, we could have rolled out the “spaghetti and pete’s balls” joke.

[SunkenCiv]

As the cannibals from Suomi say, “are you gonna Finnish that?”

[SunkenCiv]

You ain’t lyin’...

http://locustsandhoney.blogspot.com/2007/11/archaeological-evidence-for-zombie.html

[SunkenCiv]

I happened during the drought last year. He walked ten miles on that trip, and didn’t pass water once.

[SunkenCiv]

They sure took their time about it, but then, these cannibals were “having people over” a few centuries before Adam and Eve were created, so...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1942995/posts

[SunkenCiv]

...and why people like to wash it down with Bishop’s Finger.

[denydenydeny]

My, my, were these the Gaea Worshipers

My first thought. The culture would like us to believe that humans lived an idyllic existence as wise stewards of "the land," in perfect harmony and peace...until those evil Christians showed up.

[MaxMax]

One day a cannibal visited the neighboring island of cannibals.
There, people cost $2 but politicians cost $25.
The visiting cannibal asked,

"How come politicians cost so much?"

The chief answered, "Do you know how hard it is to clean one of those?"

[Little Bill]

This evolved out of a mind set that developed in the sixties. The tome was all cultures are good until something intervened.

We all lived in multicultural self loving communities and had no reason to use force or violence against our neighbors whom we loved and copulated freely with, thus making us all brothers and sisters in Gaea.

The reality seems to be, at least in the LBK period of time , is that we copulated with their sisters and roasted the men for dinner.I have held for many years that Civilization empowers people and Christianity most certainly did that, women were just funny feeling factories before that, with out strong male protection.

Christianity gave women a place in the world top to bottom a set of responsibilities grounded in doctrine and law.

[SunkenCiv]

This came as a surprise:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/longpig/index

[decimon]

...political crisis in central Europe...

The EU (Eat U).

[decimon]

What the hell kind of political crisis could they have had 7,000 years ago?