Posted on 07/11/2012 4:45:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The unique discovery at the east end of Lake Mossø of a slaughtered army dating to around two thousand years ago, was revealed by Danish archaeologists in 2009.
They had found skeletal material from up to 200 warriors, who may have all come from the same battle. Cuts and slashes on the skeletons showed they had died violently but nothing is as yet known about the identity of the killers, or their victims.
In February this year it was announced that the Carlsberg Foundation has granted 1.5 million DKK for further research and excavations in Alken Wetlands. Archaeologists and other experts from Skanderborg Museum, Moesgård Museum and Aarhus University hope to answer some of their research questions this summer when a major excavation will take place near Alken, a small town outside Skanderborg on the Jutland peninsula.
The remains are from the beginning of the Roman Iron Age, though Roman armies never reached so far north, only as far as modern day Germany, a few hundred kilometres to the south of the Danish site. However, this conflict could have been a consequence of the Roman expansion and this discovery could shed new light on what happened in those centuries beyond the borders of the Roman Empire...
It is thought many more bodies will be unearthed over the course of July and August... The remains are so well preserved that experts will be able to analyse their DNA and preliminary tests have been carried out at a laboratory on six teeth and two femur bones. If successful it will inform the researchers whether the skeletons represent a local grouping or one from outside the region.
(Excerpt) Read more at pasthorizonspr.com ...
Probably a Roman expeditionary force that was ambushed and annihilated.
Was never reported to Rome by the commander so it remained unknown to this day.....................
Thanks for the link. Interesting summary of the forensics.
“ Cuts and slashes on the skeletons showed they had died violently but nothing is as yet known about the identity of the killers, or their victims.”
So these guys are BOGeys.
They may not have started out that way, but they sure ended up that way. :^)
Discovery Of Ancient Human Bones In Denmark Suggests A ‘Barbarian-on-barbarian’ War Took Place In Northern Europe
By Athena Yenko | May 22, 2018
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/228201/20180522/discovery-of-ancient-human-bones-in-denmark-suggests-a-barbarian-on-barbarian-war-took-place-in-northern-europe.htm
Direct evidence of a large Northern European Roman period martial event and postbattle corpse manipulation
Mads Kähler Holst, Jan Heinemeier, Ejvind Hertz, Peter Jensen, Mette Løvschal, Lene Mollerup, Bent Vad Odgaard, Jesper Olsen, Niels Emil Søe, and Søren Munch Kristiansen
PNAS June 5, 2018
http://www.pnas.org/content/115/23/5920
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/23/5920/F1.large.jpg?width=800&height=600&carousel=1
http://www.google.com/search?q=Alken+Denmark+ancient+DNA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch
Not even close.
My wild guess is, a surprise attack and massacre by one of the none-too-neighborly neighbors. The wounds (it sez) are consistent with the local weapons of that time.
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