Posted on 05/04/2020 8:46:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...Skull binding spread across central Asia in the second century B.C., expanded into Europe around the second and third centuries A.D. and became increasingly popular in central Europe by the first half of the fifth century A.D., according to the authors...
For the new study, researchers examined 51 elongated skulls from burials in the Mözs graveyard, in what was once a Roman province known as Pannonia Valeria. The graves, 96 in all, were divided into three groups and represented three generations, from A.D. 430 until the cemetery was abandoned in A.D. 470.
The first burial group is thought to be the founding group of the cemetery, and their remains are buried in Roman-style graves. A second group is buried in a style that appears to have originated outside the region, while the third group combines burial practices that draw from Roman and other traditions.
Individuals with artificially stretched skulls were found in all three burial groups, with elongated skulls comprising around 32% of the burials in the first group; 65% in the second group; and 70% in the third group. However, variations in the location and direction of grooves in the skulls suggest that different binding techniques were used among the groups.
Analysis of isotopes, or different versions of atoms, in the bones provided more clues about where individuals in the later burials came from. Some originated near Mözs and others settled there after being displaced...
Previously, archaeologists had hypothesized that new arrivals to Pannonia Valeria settled with people who had lived there under the Romans, based on artifacts that were found in the graves; the new evidence confirms that, according to the study.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Crap. My middle name is Alan.
And you're right, one survivng ancient sample may not give the full picture of that vanished people, but since it is characteristic of that time and place, it's probably not all that far off. :^) By and large, my Ancestry DNA report verely verified what the paperwork shows.
Probably a good many of them died by 30 or 35 anyway. :^)
Maybe width=500 next time? :^)
That is too funny.
I have a theory. There was a residue of memory passed down from when people first originated from aliens, aliens who had sex with neanderthals. This memory, probably passed through their genes, was thought to be “sacred” and to show their respect to their alien ancestors they created these pointy skulls. Some also created flat skulls of their neanderthal ancestors too.
Can this be proven through Hegelian logic? Perhaps not. But there was an Hegelian professor who died with an elongated head in Berlin in 1833 at the height of European Civilization (as claimed by Hegel’s understanding of Absolute Spirit). He claimed that the elongated Norman Cathedrals in Europe reached up to the stars and God. Could God be aliens? Interesting question for our age.
What did you get on the female side?
According to Wikipedia, the Alan people may be a source for the name :-)
Alan (Ossetian), possibly originally from the Balkans. One had 20% Asian ancestry.
Any Roman on either side?
Moops
That's it. Kind of argues for the near total replacement of the Gallo-Roman population in southern Normandy with Franks and others.
Ason Jalexander was involved.
whoops, verely = merely
Getting a whole population to do something stupid, odd, or counterintuitive to or with their bodies is about establishing control over them. That's much more likely as explanations go.
Badda-bing!
No.
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