An Army Sacrificed in a Bog [ Alken, Denmark, 2K ago ]

Past Horizons Archaeology ^ | July 2012 | Aarhus University

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Renfield.

A survey in 2009 confirmed the good preservation conditions. Image: Skanderborg Museum

Archaeologists hope that the excavation will solve the many mysteries about the circumstances behind the sacrifice of several hundred warriors. Image: Aarhus University

Within the deposited peat layers in roughly the same horizon as the human remains, a discovery was made of three iron lance-heads and a wooden shield. Image: Skanderborg Museum

[Smokin' Joe]

Sacrifices?

Killed captives?

KIA burial?

Budget cuts/downsizing?

Maybe DNA will shed some light on that...

[Little Bill]

Battle Field sanitation, keeps the smell down, not to mention flies.

[Nakota]

Danish “Fast & Furious”?

[BRL]

Clearly that guy did not floss daily

[SunkenCiv]

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[TPOOH]

Bush’s fault.

[Hugin]

“Sacrifided”? Nothing in the article I saw explains using that word. Bad translation?

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[Hugin]

“Sacrificed”? Nothing in the article I saw explains using that word. Bad translation?

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

Could be, they were sacrifided after they fighted in the bog.

[bigheadfred]

Clearly that guy did not floss daily

Who worries about flossing when you are all bogged down???

[Redcitizen]

Someone sowed Dragon’s teeth and still lost the battle.

[SunkenCiv]

Ah, ha!

Thanks again Renfield.

http://www.heritagedaily.com/2012/08/macabre-finds-in-the-bog-at-alken-enge/

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 07/11/2012. Just a little re-ping.

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[21twelve]

“Ten thousand Swedes run through the weeds
chased by one Norwegian.”

[vannrox]

Great post. Very interesting.

[bert]

Santa Anna sacrificed his army in a bog

[Varda]

Thanks for the ping. I missed this posting the first time around.

Here’s some more about the skeletons. I don’t think it was an army but rather the men of a village all slaughtered. (probably by a German tribe)

“The deposited population is estimated to 380 individuals. The relative absence of traces of healed sharp force trauma suggests that they had relatively little previous battle experience”
http://www.pnas.org/content/115/23/5920

[litehaus]

In other news:
“Ancient Alien Experts” estimate 300,000 planets like ours have disappeared when the scientists got to making a Black Hole and immediately were GONE !