Image credit: Ludes et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadl3374 (2024)
OJ might understand.
A tradition, huh? And people wonder why the modern world is so messed up.
These are the gruesome practices that Christianity eliminated worldwide.
So much for Rousseau’s “noble savage”.
Presumably just the ugly ones......
No wonder why the Neolithic women welcomed the Indo-European men.
Ah. The past. Those golden years of country life and innocence.
Some treacherous evil hell spawn deserve “incaprettamento”.
Looking at you Lizard Cheney. /spit
Interesting findings. Thanks, SunkenCiv.
The article writer seens to be more sensationalist than scientist, though. How can he call these killings, which he concludes with done regularly as part of a religious ceremony, “murder”? By whose standards are they murder? By his personal standards, apparently.
This is a failing of many moderns, the inability to view something objectively. One historian, Santayana?, put it as, the past is another country. They do things differently there.
Any evidence there were any neolithic men pretending to neolithic women?
Can they tell whether the genetics of these cultures were hunter gatherer, farmer/hunter gatherer or or the later steppe herders?
They also left the chieftain once impotent in the wild tied up to die from wolves or elements etc
So cry me a river
Brown people on the sub continent still burn wives with dead husbands
The Germanic tribes in this endeavor with limp noodle chief if beloved by his women the women would kill him humanely as a kind gesture
This was obviously prior to erectile dysfunction meds unfortunately
