Posted on 08/03/2015 9:46:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
The 5,000-year-old house found in China was about 14 by 15 feet in size. Credit: Photo courtesy Chinese Archaeology
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The remains of 97 human bodies have been found stuffed into a small 5,000-year-old house in a prehistoric village in northeast China, researchers report in two separate studies.
The bodies of juveniles, young adults and middle-age adults were packed together in the house — smaller than a modern-day squash court — before it burnt down. Anthropologists who studied the remains say a "prehistoric disaster," possibly an epidemic of some sort, killed these people.
The site, whose modern-day name is "Hamin Mangha," dates back to a time before writing was used in the area, when people lived in relatively small settlements, growing crops and hunting for food. The village contains the remains of pottery, grinding instruments, arrows and spearheads, providing information on their way of life. [In Photos: Remains of 'End of World' Epidemic Found in Ancient Egypt]
"Hamin Mangha site is the largest and best-preserved prehistoric settlement site found to date in northeast China," a team of archaeologists wrote in a translated report published in the most recent edition of the journal Chinese Archaeology (the original report appeared in Chinese in the journal Kaogu). In one field season, between April and November 2011, the researchers found the foundations of 29 houses, most of which are simple one-room structures containing a hearth and doorway.
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Archaeologists found nearly 100 bodies in a small house in northeast China. The house burned down at some point, leaving some of the bodies charred and deformed. Credit: Photo courtesy Chinese Archaeology
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PinGGG...............a whole lotta G’s..................
So, Obamacare is a very old idea, after all.
97 bodies in a 14’ x 15’ house?
So then, that house is as cramped as the “coach” section on an commercial airliner?
My guess is it was the Black plague or similar.......................
No one has suggested that they were locked in, and the house burned down on top of them by paleo-muzzies yet.
Gonna need a bigger suitcase.......................
Later in the article part not posted, they say the bodies were ‘stacked’ and arranged................
That’s not so different than how a certain demographic packs into houses in our country right now.
Must EVERYTHING be about race with you?
Sheesh!
;-)
I must admit, at first glacem I hoped the bodies would be ancient as well.
Government thugs are a common epidemic that extends into ancient times.
Oh... stacked and arranged.
Dead before the fire was set.
My angle is, I believe archaeologists rarely get the complete picture of what was actually going on, although they can make convincing guesses.
Will future generations, seeing the green Coke bottles of the 20th century, rightly think they were routine beverage containers, or ascribe some mythical religious meaning to them? What will they think of any surviving political campaign buttons?
Okay, okay, so it was the ‘African American’ Plague?..................
Moslem?
No, the heads were still attached.......mostly.............
The origins of Planned Parenthood....
Not very efficient. From the aerial view, there appears to be some room at the lower left. Could have put a few more before burning the place....
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