Posted on 06/13/2016 11:18:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Neolithic group found in silo appeared to have suffered violent deaths, with multiple injuries to legs, hands and skulls.
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 6,000-year-old massacre that took place in Alsace, in north-eastern France.
The corpses of 10 individuals were found in one of 300 ancient silos, used to store grain and other food...
The Neolithic group appeared to have had violent deaths, with multiple injuries to their legs, hands and skulls. The way in which the bodies were piled on top of each other suggested they had been killed together and dumped in the silo.
“They were very brutally executed and received violent blows, almost certainly from a stone axe,” said Philippe Lefranc, an Infrap specialist on the period.
The skeletons of five adults and an adolescent were found as well as four arms from different individuals. The arms were probably war trophies, like those found at a nearby burial site of Bergheim in 2012, said Lefranc.
The mutilations indicated a society of “furious, ritualised warriors”, he said, while the silos were stored within a defence wall that pointed towards “a troubled time, a period of insecurity”.
It is hoped genetic testing on the bones will reveal more information about the killings, but Lefranc said one theory was that a local tribe had clashed with a group arriving from the area around modern-day Paris.
“It appears that a warrior raid by people from the Parisian basin went wrong for the assailants, and the Alsatians of the era massacred them,” he said.
However, in the long run, it was the “Parisians” who had the last laugh. The local tribe appear to have been supplanted by the newcomers at about 4,200 BC, as demonstrated by new funeral rites, pottery and hamlets.
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The fossilised skeletons of two men with numerous fractured bones. Photograph: Michel Christen/AFP/Getty
Muslims did it.
A great book on the subject of ancient homicide and its appalling frequency, Warfare Before Civilization.
https://www.amazon.com/War-Before-Civilization-Peaceful-Savage/dp/0195119126
If the mutilated dead are the remains of defeated invaders/raiders, then why were they dumped in the defenders’ grain silo?
Maybe they weren't vegetarians, and the silos weren't really for grain? ;') And for dessert, lady fingers!
Killin’ seems to beat workin’ for some people, and it’s nothing new. Thanks Psalm 144.
This is interesting:
Lunch.
This just doesn’t jibe. Wasn’t this the kum by ya era before the development of the “patriarchy”?
This was probably the result of some uprising by prehistoric feminists trying to reestablish the ever-peaceful and universally beneficial matriarchy. /s
Yes. Very well established. There are some feast remains in the Southwest that would thrill an orc.
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