Did Uruk soldiers kill their own people? 5,500 year old fratricide at Hamoukar Syria

heritage-key.com ^ | 09/23/2010 | owenjarus

[ApplegateRanch]

Standard shape, size and weight from a mold increases accuracy and thus lethality over random stones.

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

Clay bullets are lighter than stones, and more reliable (because they are manufactured, they have a regular shape and size). Sling weapons were enormously popular.

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, thanks Sherman, I responded from the My Comments screen, instead of from within the topic. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

[Rocky]

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

Do you know Liv Tyler? She talks like that, I hear.

[Psalm 144]

Wow, just yesterday I was reading about this massacre in my Doctor’s waiting room (Discover Magazine) and was haunted by it....basically nothing has changed since the dawn of civilization. Didn’t think to look at the magazine’s date.

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Believe it or not, things have improved quite a bit. A very interesting book presented here “War Before Civilization”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Before_Civilization

In a nutshell, generally, the further back you go, the more likely that a human’s death is caused by homicide. The authors had to base their case for the most part on hard tissue evidence, which would make the numbers even higher when one considers the homicides carried out which traumatized only soft tissues.

The authors include early examples of what I suppose could be called prototypical socialized medicine. A number of the victims are elderly, showing signs of debilitation and old injuries prior to having their heads bashed in or getting a flint tipped arrow in the back.

This is a very interesting book, probably available for a very modest price on the used book market.

[Psalm 144]

Of course they killed their own.

The Fighting Uruk Hai were well known for killing each other when Sauron or Saruman couldn’t point them at any other opponents.
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Meat’s back on the menu, boys!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY4V3UUY95A

[ApplegateRanch]

I loved that scene, both in the books, and in the movie.

[ApplegateRanch]

NEVER speak THAT language here again!

[1010RD]

You’d imagine that clay “bullets” would also fragment on impact so that even a miss would cause some damage and some panic/chaos as they rained down en masse.

[1010RD]

They tell of a bureaucratic system that was almost as complex as our own

So its only a matter of time until Obamacare returns medicine to its primitive roots?

Death Panel Reviewer #1: "Patient is an elderly male in his mid-fifties with three cavities."

Death Panel Reviewer #2: "Medical estimates indicate the repair procedure will cost approximately $225.00"

Death Panel Reviewer #1:"Our SEIU cost to kill by head-smashing estimate is only $220.00, so bash his head in."

Death Panel Reviewer #2:"OK. Our next patient is suffering from a sprained ankle..."

[1010RD]

archaeologists have found obsidian workshops spread across 280 hectares.

Who writes this stuff? Are they describing a massive and connected industrial center or scattered and small workshops spread over 700 acres?

[SunkenCiv]

Lots of eye injuries, and the clear glass we know today wasn’t figured out until the 6th c AD.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[colorado tanker]

They have found evidence that an Uruk colony near Hamoukar was also destroyed in this conflict.

They got beat by a more experienced army because they were Urukies.

[Little Bill]

Maybe they found a major secondary market and the primary market got pissed, damn I am beginning to sound like a libertarian.

[colorado tanker]

Nobody horns in on my markets. That's the way it's always been.

[Little Bill]

I see that you have Mastered Mercantilism the next step is the open market.

[Larry Lucido]

Statute of limitations. Next case!

[colorado tanker]

I don't know. It's all so confusing!