Posted on 04/13/2024 10:36:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The research found evidence of the "incaprettamento" method of murder at 14 Neolithic sites in Europe.
The murder of sacrificial victims by "incaprettamento" — tying their neck to their legs bent behind their back, so that they effectively strangled themselves — seems to have been a tradition across much of Neolithic Europe, with a new study identifying more than a dozen such murders over more than 2,000 years.
The study comes after a reassessment of an ancient tomb that was discovered more than 20 years ago at Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux near Avignon, in southern France. The tomb mimics a silo, or pit where grain was stored, and it held the remains of three women who were buried there about 5,500 years ago...
To investigate the idea of human sacrifice at Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, Crubézy, who worked on the initial discovery of the tomb, and colleagues examined earlier archaeological studies of tomb sites throughout Europe. The team included forensic pathologist Bertrand Ludes, of Paris Cité University and the study's lead author.
They found evidence of 20 probable cases of sacrificial murders using incaprettamento at 14 Neolithic (New Stone Age) sites dating to between 5400 and 3500 B.C. They also found papers describing Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) rock art in the Addaura Cave in Sicily, made between 14000 and 11000 B.C., that seems to depict two human figures bound in the incaprettamento manner.
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Uh, no.
To copy CV response. “Yea. Uh No.”
Man is the matter at hand, and history teaches us one thing. Man can be a creator, or a destroyer.
Christianity and for that matter no other religion can change that.
That. Is All.
One of the most tragic things of all is when an act of love is mistaken for an act of antagonism.
Nonsense.
Your desire to reply to my posts, seen in these last few, is not enough to overcome your well-reasoned fear of truly engaging in discussion with me.
No, Reason is not Faith. Even your FR nick is antagonistic. If that were not so, you wouldn’t spend time in these topics. You’re nothing but a garden variety troll. Sod off.
But a troll is very different from someone who takes a deep interest in the subject matter.
Figuring out who is motivated by a sincere interest and who is motivated to “troll” is not beyond your intellectual capability.
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