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Early Neolithic Mass Grave Reveals New Evidence of a Violent Age in Central Europe
Deutsche Welle ^ | August 17, 2015 | Zulfikar Abbany

Posted on 04/22/2019 10:28:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

It's an age often described as one of social unrest, leading to an "apocalyptic nightmare of violence, warfare, and cannibalism." A Neolithic mass grave in Germany shows the idea may not be far wrong... Christian Meyer and his fellow researchers now believe they have enough evidence to explain "conclusively" what happened at the site of a mass grave in Schöneck-Kilianstädten, near Frankfurt, around 5207-4849 BC. If they are right, their findings may help our understanding of early social unrest among the first Central European farmers of the Neolithic era... The site at Schöneck-Kilianstädten reveals a "new violence-related pattern: the intentional and systematic breaking of lower limbs." At least 26 people at the site were tortured and systematically beaten before being thrown into a pit. Most of the victims were men and children aged between 12 and 13 years. The researchers found evidence of only two women, estimated to have been older than 40. It suggests any younger women -- for example, mothers of the children -- were abducted... Their theory chimes with evidence found at two other Neolithic massacre sites: one at Talheim, Germany and the other at Asparn/Schletz, Austria... Among the men and children in the mass grave, Meyer and the team found many damaged skulls, fractured calves and shins... Meyer says the three sites together prove that as early as 7000 years ago, acts of "collective violence" were common. This period also saw humans begin to settle, to build and to live off the land and witnessed the widespread flourishing of a form of pottery known as Linear Pottery culture.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: agriculture; ancientautopsies; animalhusbandry; asparnschletz; austria; blackseaflood; dietandcuisine; frankfurt; germany; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; huntergatherers; neolithic; talheim
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

21 posted on 04/22/2019 11:52:27 PM PDT by IWontSubmit
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To: SunkenCiv

There is a profound difference between ‘ civilization’ and ‘civilized.’


22 posted on 04/22/2019 11:52:46 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: IWontSubmit

Notre Dame Cathedral was built in the ‘Dark Ages.’

I believe slavery made a comeback along with the return of pagan influences of the Renaissance.


23 posted on 04/22/2019 11:56:22 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: SunkenCiv
I've heard of this, before.

Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!

24 posted on 04/23/2019 12:04:19 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Equine1952

“To believe we as a species have ascended to a level above those before us...”

Deutsche Welle is a German publication and to their credit, Germany does a pretty good job of acknowledging its not-so-distant barbaric Nazi past.


25 posted on 04/23/2019 12:09:38 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: SunkenCiv

This grim discovery supports my theory on how people started farming. It was a secert discovered during warfare. One side of a fight , in desperate need of food, asked the simple question of how did plants get started and figured it out . A similar thing happened during WW1. Germany was cut off from fertilizer so the Haber process of getting nitrogen from air turned into ammonia was invented.


26 posted on 04/23/2019 12:16:15 AM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Notre Dame Cathedral was built in the ‘Dark Ages.’
There were no 'Dark Ages'. That is a late 19th century construct by 'historians'.

I believe slavery made a comeback along with the return of pagan influences of the Renaissance.
Comeback?
There always has been slavery.
There are more slave now on the planet than have been all through history...
As to 'pagans', Christian propagandists have been relentless distorting ancient cultures ....
27 posted on 04/23/2019 12:26:15 AM PDT by IWontSubmit
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To: SunkenCiv; Fred Nerks

Whats the big deal?

They were just having the usual Oktoberfest.

Nothing has changed much today, except that the ambulances and hospitals prevent death and lasting injuries for the most part.

Women who want to be abducted just attend Oktoberfest. Kids 12 to 13 are kicked out. And older women have a blast.


28 posted on 04/23/2019 2:18:31 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Nateman

Re: A similar thing happened during WW1. Germany was cut off from fertilizer so the Haber process of getting nitrogen from air turned into ammonia was invented.

In World War 2, the Germans also developed industrial-scale coal liquefaction, for motor fuel, after their primary oil source, Romania, fell to the Russians.


29 posted on 04/23/2019 2:37:14 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“What these studies fail to mention of course is how the Christianization of the world...however much later...changed things. Dramatically. It was the primary civilizing force of Europe.”

You are EXACTLY correct!


30 posted on 04/23/2019 3:53:51 AM PDT by Zirondelle76
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To: Nateman
This grim discovery supports my theory on how people started farming.

My theory goes like this:
Husband: "What have we got for dinner tonight, darling?"
Wife: "Woolly rhinoceros."
Husband: "Woolly rhinoceros! But we had woolly rhinoceros last night. And the night before. And the night before that."
Wife: "You got any better ideas?"

31 posted on 04/23/2019 3:59:54 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: SunkenCiv

now that you mention it the Black Sea Flood and farmers from anatolyia moving to europe about 7 thousand years ago do coincide

nice catch.

any evidence besides the coincidence of the two events?


32 posted on 04/23/2019 6:18:47 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: Candor7; Fred Nerks

They are still at it.

https://www.thisisinsider.com/why-you-shouldnt-go-to-oktoberfest-2016-9


33 posted on 04/23/2019 6:32:29 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: IWontSubmit

I think the Far Easterners would object. Lots of cities, plenty of civilized areas. The white folks just went a bit further, but were not unique.


34 posted on 04/23/2019 8:25:14 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: ckilmer
Ryan and Pitman made the suggestion in their book, citing the sudden appearance of fortification and/or violent ends to various older settlements in Anatolia, M.E., and possibly elsewhere. It's not unlikely that the population of that now-submerged area was very large, due to then-current climate possibly as large as the surrounding areas put together.

35 posted on 04/23/2019 10:58:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Rome and its empire introduced civilization to a large chunk of western Europe, and it did it during its pagan phase. You want a religious discussion, carry it over into the substantial religion forum here on FR.

36 posted on 04/23/2019 11:02:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Without getting into a discussion whether the Dark Ages really were dark, Notre Dame was not built then. The building was started during the 12th Century Renaissance, when high Medieval culture began to flourish.


37 posted on 04/23/2019 12:05:02 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Candor7; SunkenCiv; Fred Nerks; All

Children 12 to 13 were old enough to be dangerous and too old to adapt to a new culture if their mothers were with them. So, kill the men, those older children, and keep the women and young children to expand the tribe.


38 posted on 04/23/2019 8:34:33 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: SunkenCiv; Red Badger; BenLurkin; All

Some decades ago I saw an interesting National Geographic article about the excavation of a 50 foot high village mound in Bulgaria. The earliest pottery was lively and brightly colored. Then about 3,000 BC the potter was all dull gray or brown with no ornamentation but very well formed and smooth. My thought then was my gosh what happened to these people. Now I suspect that the women (pottery makers) were captured by invaders, their men and older children murdered and they were a sad and depressed female population whose lack of happiness and spirit was reflected in their pottery.


39 posted on 04/23/2019 9:07:04 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: SunkenCiv

The Neolithic era was very carbon neutral.


40 posted on 04/23/2019 9:12:42 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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