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An Army Sacrificed in a Bog [ Alken, Denmark, 2K ago ]
Past Horizons Archaeology ^ | July 2012 | Aarhus University

Posted on 07/11/2012 4:45:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

The unique discovery at the east end of Lake Mossø of a slaughtered army dating to around two thousand years ago, was revealed by Danish archaeologists in 2009.

They had found skeletal material from up to 200 warriors, who may have all come from the same battle. Cuts and slashes on the skeletons showed they had died violently but nothing is as yet known about the identity of the killers, or their victims.

In February this year it was announced that the Carlsberg Foundation has granted 1.5 million DKK for further research and excavations in Alken Wetlands. Archaeologists and other experts from Skanderborg Museum, Moesgård Museum and Aarhus University hope to answer some of their research questions this summer when a major excavation will take place near Alken, a small town outside Skanderborg on the Jutland peninsula.

The remains are from the beginning of the Roman Iron Age, though Roman armies never reached so far north, only as far as modern day Germany, a few hundred kilometres to the south of the Danish site. However, this conflict could have been a consequence of the Roman expansion and this discovery could shed new light on what happened in those centuries beyond the borders of the Roman Empire...

It is thought many more bodies will be unearthed over the course of July and August... The remains are so well preserved that experts will be able to analyse their DNA and preliminary tests have been carried out at a laboratory on six teeth and two femur bones. If successful it will inform the researchers whether the skeletons represent a local grouping or one from outside the region.

(Excerpt) Read more at pasthorizonspr.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: alkenenge; ancientautopsies; genealogy; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; ironage; jutland; lakemosso; romanbaltic; romanempire; romangermany; skanderborg
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Thanks Renfield.
An army sacrificed in a bog

A survey in 2009 confirmed the good preservation conditions. Image: Skanderborg Museum
An army sacrificed in a bog

Archaeologists hope that the excavation will solve the many mysteries about the circumstances behind the sacrifice of several hundred warriors. Image: Aarhus University
An army sacrificed in a bog

Within the deposited peat layers in roughly the same horizon as the human remains, a discovery was made of three iron lance-heads and a wooden shield. Image: Skanderborg Museum

1 posted on 07/11/2012 4:45:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Sacrifices?

Killed captives?

KIA burial?

Budget cuts/downsizing?

Maybe DNA will shed some light on that...

2 posted on 07/11/2012 4:49:51 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Battle Field sanitation, keeps the smell down, not to mention flies.


3 posted on 07/11/2012 4:59:06 PM PDT by Little Bill
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To: Little Bill

Danish “Fast & Furious”?


4 posted on 07/11/2012 5:23:16 PM PDT by Nakota
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To: SunkenCiv

Clearly that guy did not floss daily


5 posted on 07/11/2012 5:38:51 PM PDT by BRL
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To: Renfield; Smokin' Joe; Little Bill; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks Renfield. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


6 posted on 07/11/2012 5:41:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Bush’s fault.


7 posted on 07/11/2012 5:44:54 PM PDT by TPOOH (I wish I could have been Jerry Reed.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Sacrifided”? Nothing in the article I saw explains using that word. Bad translation?


8 posted on 07/11/2012 5:46:06 PM PDT by Hugin ("Most times a man'll tell you his bad intentions, if you listen and let yourself hear."---Open Range)
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To: BRL

;’)


9 posted on 07/11/2012 5:46:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Sacrificed”? Nothing in the article I saw explains using that word. Bad translation?


10 posted on 07/11/2012 5:46:24 PM PDT by Hugin ("Most times a man'll tell you his bad intentions, if you listen and let yourself hear."---Open Range)
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To: Hugin

;’)

Could be, they were sacrifided after they fighted in the bog.


11 posted on 07/11/2012 5:48:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: BRL; SunkenCiv
Clearly that guy did not floss daily

Who worries about flossing when you are all bogged down???

12 posted on 07/11/2012 6:38:53 PM PDT by bigheadfred (MY PET TAPEWORM OBIWAN IS AN INSANE MILITARY HATING LEFTIST)
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To: SunkenCiv

Someone sowed Dragon’s teeth and still lost the battle.


13 posted on 07/11/2012 7:26:27 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Tagline tagged and bagged.)
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To: Renfield

Ah, ha!

Thanks again Renfield.

http://www.heritagedaily.com/2012/08/macabre-finds-in-the-bog-at-alken-enge/


14 posted on 08/14/2012 5:12:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Note: this topic is from 07/11/2012. Just a little re-ping.

15 posted on 11/20/2018 8:30:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Ten thousand Swedes run through the weeds
chased by one Norwegian.”


16 posted on 11/20/2018 10:16:18 PM PST by 21twelve (!)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Great post. Very interesting.


17 posted on 11/20/2018 10:44:42 PM PST by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Santa Anna sacrificed his army in a bog


18 posted on 11/21/2018 5:02:03 AM PST by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for the ping. I missed this posting the first time around.

Here’s some more about the skeletons. I don’t think it was an army but rather the men of a village all slaughtered. (probably by a German tribe)

“The deposited population is estimated to 380 individuals. The relative absence of traces of healed sharp force trauma suggests that they had relatively little previous battle experience”
http://www.pnas.org/content/115/23/5920


19 posted on 11/21/2018 5:13:23 AM PST by Varda
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To: Smokin' Joe

In other news:
“Ancient Alien Experts” estimate 300,000 planets like ours have disappeared when the scientists got to making a Black Hole and immediately were GONE !


20 posted on 11/21/2018 5:32:18 AM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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