Posted on 10/19/2013 6:21:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A digitized image shows the positions of three 15th-century men found in a mass grave in central California. (Courtesy Jelmer Eerkens)
***Indeed, the archaeological record from the period is rife with evidence of hand-to-hand combat: fractured skulls, broken arms, even body parts taken as trophies. ***
Bunkum. Everyone knows the pre Colombian period was all paradise on earth! Any lib will tell you that life here was a bed of roses till the evil white man showed up.
Sarc/off
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
***obsidian points were still embedded in their spines.***
Well at least the condors didn’t get poisoned by lead!
This is interesting. Thanks for posting.
My pleasure. These three dead guys probably could have gone for a different outcome though. ;’)
“Their bodies riddled with arrow points”
San Francisco.......a history of men getting the shaft.
Assault bows no doubt.
Don't forget the liberal fairy tale of the "noble" savage, one with the earth and nature...like in Avatar...!
So, it must have been the Amish who don them in.
Just shows the brutality of the European invaders.
Wait. What?
These may be early Pelosians, who met an untimely death when they first suggested that “We will just have to pass it to see what’s in it,” while trying to take over leadership of the local tribe. Early politics.
If Obama’s ancestor had three primordial prodigal sons pushed into a 15th century pit grave...
Obamacare through the ages.
“Everyone knows the pre Colombian period was all paradise on earth! Any lib will tell you that life here was a bed of roses till the evil white man showed up.”
libtards want no knowledge of history because it interferes with their skittle-pooping unicorn fantasy of what the world is like.
The “native Americans” were members of primitive tribes. They committed atrocities on each other regularly. It still happens today on the reservations although now it is often fueled by alcohol and drugs and never talked about in the LSM. There never was a “noble savage”.
The European settlers of the time were pretty hard-ass because they had to be. It was survival of the fittest and they also committed atrocities. Now most of their descendants are metrosexuals.
It is what it is.
The 15th Century is “pre-historic”?
OUTLAW Bow and Arrows!!!! lol
Any period before writing arrives in a culture is prehistoric.
I question anyone calling anything north of San Francisco “Central Callifornia”. I could be central east to west, but Central California is generally known as the San Joaquin Valley, far south of Yolo. Sacramento, and environs, is known as “North Valley”.
Otherwise, this is fascinating.
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