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Neolithic women in Europe were tied up and buried alive in ritual sacrifices, study suggests
Live Science ^ | April 10, 2024 | Tom Metcalfe

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: europe; fauxiantroll; fauxiantrolls; fugetaboutit; godsgravesglyphs; grain; humansacrifice; incaprettamento; neolithic; paganism; pagans; sacrifice; sacrificial; strangulation
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Image credit: Ludes et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadl3374 (2024)
Image credit: Ludes et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadl3374 (2024)

1 posted on 04/13/2024 10:36:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 04/13/2024 10:37:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

OJ might understand.


3 posted on 04/13/2024 10:55:24 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: doorgunner69

These Neolithic broads were askin’ for it. [burp!]


4 posted on 04/13/2024 11:18:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

A tradition, huh? And people wonder why the modern world is so messed up.


5 posted on 04/13/2024 11:58:18 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SunkenCiv
"Neolithic women in Europe were tied up and buried alive in ritual sacrifices, study suggests'

Did that accomplish anything?
6 posted on 04/13/2024 11:58:27 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: SunkenCiv

These are the gruesome practices that Christianity eliminated worldwide.


7 posted on 04/13/2024 11:59:47 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: clearcarbon
It could easily be a manifestation the usual "ritual purposes" dodge when something puzzling is found. These are probably just executions/murders of captives or conquests.

8 posted on 04/14/2024 12:10:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: clearcarbon
Did that accomplish anything?

It stopped climate change.

The climate change gods will only accept the sacrifice of climate change cult true believers.

9 posted on 04/14/2024 12:12:00 AM PDT by Mogger (AreIn bookstores is a very expensive, beautifully bound in green leather Holy Koran. If one was goin)
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To: SpaceBar
The mafia used/uses this. Italy finally got fed up with this and other practices by the pathologically violent criminal underclass and chucked a bunch of them in prison.

10 posted on 04/14/2024 12:12:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: nwrep

Yes, the rack and burning at the stake was preferred.


11 posted on 04/14/2024 12:19:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

So much for Rousseau’s “noble savage”.


12 posted on 04/14/2024 12:30:44 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: SunkenCiv

LOL! 😂
Saved me the trouble.👍


13 posted on 04/14/2024 12:31:58 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
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To: SunkenCiv

“Neolithic women in Europe were tied up and buried alive in ritual sacrifices, study suggests”

“These Neolithic broads were askin’ for it. [burp!]”

Ritual? Or punishment for crimes committed. Or POW executions? Debt collections.

“Ritual” is to loosly defined here, murdered is probably the correct termimology but that’s forensic observation not scientifically “determined.” Oh, the games the scholarly play.

“Put a shine on it Desmond and call it ritual!”


14 posted on 04/14/2024 12:32:19 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: nwrep

“These are the gruesome practices that Christianity eliminated worldwide.”

Yes, correct.


15 posted on 04/14/2024 1:08:36 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: SunkenCiv

Presumably just the ugly ones......


16 posted on 04/14/2024 3:18:15 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: SunkenCiv

No wonder why the Neolithic women welcomed the Indo-European men.


17 posted on 04/14/2024 3:28:08 AM PDT by Prolixus (In all seriousness:)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ah. The past. Those golden years of country life and innocence.


18 posted on 04/14/2024 3:50:26 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: clearcarbon

Did that accomplish anything?

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It helped drive up the costs a labor a tad bit.


19 posted on 04/14/2024 4:22:11 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Who knew the Neolithic age had Karens?


20 posted on 04/14/2024 4:42:16 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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