The Lothagam North Pillar Site (Image courtesy of Katherine Grillo)
Stone pendants and earrings found in the communal cemetery (Image courtesy of Carla Klehm)
Stone pendants and earrings found in the communal cemetery (Image courtesy of Carla Klehm)
PinGGG!....................
So basically equally poor people were buried in a mass grave....nice egalitarian society there
Researchers projecting again. Egalitarian society?
There have always been alpha males, who desire acclaim, eat too much, drink too much and desire another mans’ wife.
I think that I remember a Book that talks about it - and what not to do.
Or we can just call it sin, and start the conversation there.
Sounds like the result of a plague or a war, a mass casualty event in any case.
I am always interested in ancient history, even trivial history.
However, the article is long on politically correct conclusions, and thin on facts.
The conclusion that: “This group is believed to have had an egalitarian society, without a stratified social hierarchy,” and that this site was somehow built and maintained without any centralized authority, seems very unlikely to me.
What is the date range for the burials? One year? Ten years? A hundred years?
Were they able to determine the cause of death for any of these people?
A 98 foot diameter “platform” does not strike me as a “remarkable graveyard.” 2,000 miles away, during the same time period, the Egyptians, under the centralized control of a Pharaoh, were building the Pyramids.
It seems unlikely that “herders” would carry their dead around for weeks or months, and then bury them at this central site when the weather or the season brought them back to this area.
Did they even have pack animals 5,000 years ago in Kenya?