Archaeologists discover Iron Age massacre, frozen in time
Posted on 10/07/2020 9:36:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The work by the team involved studying skeletal remains found at a dig site of a settlement once known as La Hoya, in what is now Spain. The dig site was discovered in 1935, but only recently have the remains unearthed there been studied.
In all, the researchers examined the skeletal remains of 13 people -- nine adults, two adolescent girls, a child and an infant girl, all of whom had died sometime between 365 and 195 BC. What was most striking was the means by which the people met their death. One of the adults had been decapitated -- and one of the adolescent girls had been killed after an arm was cut off. The severed limb was found several meters away with copper bracelets encircling the arm bones. The researchers also found no evidence indicating that the victims had been buried -- instead, they had been left where they fell. Some of the remains also had evidence of burns of the kind often suffered by house fire victims.
The researchers suggest the nature of the injuries to the people in the village are evidence of a massacre -- an enemy had arrived and killed everyone in the village. Prior research has shown that the village never recovered. Such an action, the researchers note, suggests that the Iron Age on the Iberian Peninsula was a violent period. They further suggest that the Iron Age in Europe might have been more brutal than researchers have thought.
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Thanks Red Badger.
Has AG Barr gotten an indictment yet?
Always was, is now, and ever will be the only way.
Early Antifa/BLM peaceful protest.
Wouldn’t the adolescent girls have been raped and stolen away as sexual slaves?
Shows how ridiculous the ‘give peace a chance’ idea is.
Where in the world do publications find people who think this way? And how do they keep their jobs? I'm long out of college but my impression is that the Peaceable Kingdom fantasists were in retreat in recent decades.
we all just need more common sense iron control :-/
The skull fracturing suggests a mallet, club, hammer, or mace. Anyway, a big owie.
Maybe the attackers were homos, or just really hated their victims.
It’s not ridiculous until some psychos show up and slaughter everyone. This isn’t from the Iron Age, it’s from the Irony Age. :^)
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Add to the list John Lennon, not Iron Age but done in by a bullet. There will never be peace, we’re all a bunch of savages underneath.
No, really? It's funny how we always find ancient life was "more brutal than researchers (ideologues) thought."
Sounds lime Conan’s home town.
Nothing has changed. Civilization is just a vaneer, the beast always lurks just beneath the surface.
The attackers were the democrat party of their day.
JoMa
Yep.
Didn’t the Carthaginians take most of Iberia and then the Romans took it from them between 365 and 195 BC or around that time?
Violence associated with the Punic Wars?
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