Image Credit: Prof. Dr. Martin Furholt - Archaeology/Kiel University
Posted on 01/22/2023 1:13:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Excavations were conducted by a team from the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) at Kiel University (CAU), and the Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, which have been conducting research on the site of Vráble-Ve'lke Lehemby, one the largest Early Neolithic settlements in Central Europe.
Vráble-Ve'lke Lehemby was occupied between 5,250 to 4,950 BC, comprising of 313 houses in three neighbouring villages. The south-western of the three settlements was surrounded by a 1.3 km-long double ditch that likely served as boundary marker rather than serving any defensive purpose.
Archaeologists excavating the ditch have found 38 individuals in what appears to be a mass grave within an area of 15 square metres.
Except for the remains of a young child, all of the deceased appears to have been decapitated, adding to several other burials of decapitated remains discovered in 2021 nearby.
Martin Furholt from CAU said: "In mass graves with an unclear positioning, the identification of an individual is usually based on the skull, so for us this year's find represents a particularly challenging excavation situation."
The discovery raises many questions. Several bones out of their anatomical position suggest that the already-skeletonised bodies were pushed into the middle of the trench to make room for new ones. Some skeleton also have the first cervical vertebra preserved, indication that the head was carefully removed, rather than a rushed violent action...
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
Image Credit: Prof. Dr. Martin Furholt - Archaeology/Kiel University
Eurotrash doing Eurotrash things......
At least with the Egyptian kid it was dogs.
Someone sure knew how to get a head.
The heads were most likely mounted on pikes to further delineate the boundary markers. SOMETHING had to be done with the rest of the corpses.
Putin’s fault!
A nearby rock wall had a several hundred year old graffiti glyph in old Gaelic which read..There can be only one - CM
On what basis do they reach this remarkable conclusion?
It is Rousseauian "noble savage" idiocy. "Boundary Marker" my a$$. It was a defensive barrier.
Read "War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage". It is full of examples of this sort of insanity, and it points it out.
Good book!
I wonder.
I remember reading that some stoneage societies, decapitated their dead and kept it as a way to remember the dead.
Perhaps the heads resided on the end of a pike after the detachment.
Informative.
The “noble savage” myth was overdue to be, uh, buried.😇
The Bones show inspiration Kathy Reichs could solve it all.
She has written 22 books now and still testifies as an expert witness. Maybe the cases in the photo are sort of closed now although there is no statute of limitations on murder.
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/r/kathy-reichs/
They needed the heads for sports. Nobody invented the ball yet.
The Birth of Civilisation - Cult of the Skull (8800 BC to 6500 BC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b90oSidoHUY
They probably had a state dinner coming up and they needed drinking cups.
The Slavs used to do that stuff.
“Eurotrash doing Eurotrash things......”
I think if you took the time to read about the histories of various cultures you’d find that the “Eurotrash,” as you call them, were not unique in their practices.
“The heads were most likely mounted on pikes to further delineate the boundary markers. SOMETHING had to be done with the rest of the corpses.”
Could be.
I have a BA in anthropology and I have read the histories of many cultures both past and present and I feel justified in saying "Eurotrash doing Eurotrash things......"
I can hear your little, lefty, nasal whine when I hear "I think if you took the time to read about the histories of various cultures". I am 100% Northern European and I feel confident in my rejection of the reptiles running the continent.
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