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Settlement Site Hints at Mass Cannibalism [Germany 7,000 years ago]
Discovery News ^
| Friday, December 4, 2009
| Bruce Bower, Science News
Posted on 12/04/2009 1:19:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv
At a settlement in what is now southern Germany, the menu turned gruesome 7,000 years ago. Over a period of perhaps a few decades, hundreds of people were butchered and eaten before parts of their bodies were thrown into oval pits, a new study suggests. Cannibalism at the village, now called Herxheim, may have occurred during ceremonies in which people from near and far brought slaves, war prisoners or other dependents for ritual sacrifice, propose anthropologist Bruno Boulestin of the University of Bordeaux... A social and political crisis in central Europe at that time triggered various forms of violence, the researchers suspect... during Europe's early Neolithic period, when farming first spread... facial bones were smashed beyond recognition
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: cannibalism; germany; godsgravesglyphs; neolithic
F. Haak, GDKE Rheinland-Pfalz, Direktion Archaologie, Speyer

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posted on
12/04/2009 1:19:46 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:21:28 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:23:22 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says, “does this taste funny to you?”
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:24:12 PM PST
by
KingLudd
To: KingLudd
“But momma, I don’t like baby sister.”
“Shut up and eat what’s put before you.”
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:25:15 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Are you sure that it wasn’t just early evidence of the Republican Party?
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:27:11 PM PST
by
BobL
(Real Men don't use Tag Lines)
To: SunkenCiv
Naaah... they got ran down by a T-Rex trying to make it to the Ark..
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:27:46 PM PST
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: SunkenCiv
“I don’t like your neighbors.”
“Well,push them to the side of your plate and eat your veggies then.”
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:28:51 PM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(Don't blame me,I voted for the American)
To: Farmer Dean
“I hate the neighbor’s kids.”
“Children in China are starving.”
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:37:28 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
(No more global baloneyism!! -- Jim Thompson!)
To: SunkenCiv
“What’s for dinner?”
“Leftovers.”
“We always have leftovers. What were they before they were leftovers?”
“Leftovers to be!”
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:38:46 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
(No more global baloneyism!! -- Jim Thompson!)
To: TheOldLady
What if they came from the right side?...
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:45:29 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: TheOldLady
That explains the paper plates.
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:45:52 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Farmer Dean
What if the neighbors were vegetables?...
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:46:10 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: xcamel
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:46:26 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: BobL
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:46:36 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
This would explain ‘brat’ wurst
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:51:23 PM PST
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: SunkenCiv
And then came Christian missionaries to trample on these beautiful indigenous spiritualities.
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:53:08 PM PST
by
Arthur McGowan
(In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
To: SunkenCiv
Did you hear about the cannibal who passed his uncle in the woods?
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:54:52 PM PST
by
colorado tanker
(What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
To: SunkenCiv
Zombie outbreak.
It happens.
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posted on
12/04/2009 1:54:57 PM PST
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat Lead. Bonus tag line: FAIL 246, Obama 0)
To: colorado tanker
Why won't cannibals eat divorced women?
They're very bitter.
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posted on
12/04/2009 2:02:28 PM PST
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: SunkenCiv
So the French guy thinks he found evidence of canibalism in Germany and the German guy retorts that the only evidence of neolithic canibalism is in France. Hmmm...
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posted on
12/04/2009 2:10:56 PM PST
by
frithguild
(Can I drill your head now?)
To: SunkenCiv; blam
My, my, were these the Gaea Worshipers that Marja Gumbutis(sp) and her Ilk claimed to live in peace and harmony, in a female dominated society, that was of course, before we, White Male, Kurgan, IndoEuropean speaking thugs broke up all the fun.
In incredulity of the Archaeological class never ceases to amaze me.
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posted on
12/04/2009 2:12:53 PM PST
by
Little Bill
(Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/04/2009 2:25:20 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
(No more global baloneyism!! -- Jim Thompson!)
To: Little Bill; SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/04/2009 2:29:07 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam; SunkenCiv
...tastes like chicken....even then.
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posted on
12/04/2009 3:42:39 PM PST
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus)
To: Tainan
I’m glad someone plucked up the courage to say that.
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posted on
12/04/2009 4:42:52 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: blam
Sounds like you had that third helping of a treasure hunting adventurer, even though we told ya not to, and have developed a case of Indy gestion.
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posted on
12/04/2009 4:43:52 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Little Bill
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posted on
12/04/2009 4:44:47 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: frithguild
If this dig had taken place in Italy, we could have rolled out the “spaghetti and pete’s balls” joke.
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posted on
12/04/2009 4:45:18 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: norraad
As the cannibals from Suomi say, “are you gonna Finnish that?”
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posted on
12/04/2009 4:46:52 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Doomonyou
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posted on
12/04/2009 4:49:15 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: colorado tanker
I happened during the drought last year. He walked ten miles on that trip, and didn’t pass water once.
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posted on
12/04/2009 4:49:59 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Arthur McGowan
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posted on
12/04/2009 4:50:41 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Hoosier-Daddy
...and why people like to wash it down with Bishop’s Finger.
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posted on
12/04/2009 4:51:14 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Little Bill
My, my, were these the Gaea Worshipers My first thought. The culture would like us to believe that humans lived an idyllic existence as wise stewards of "the land," in perfect harmony and peace...until those evil Christians showed up.
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posted on
12/04/2009 4:54:19 PM PST
by
denydenydeny
(The Left sees taxpayers the way Dr Frankenstein saw the local cemetery; raw material for experiments)
To: KingLudd
One day a cannibal visited the neighboring island of cannibals.
There, people cost $2 but politicians cost $25.
The visiting cannibal asked,
"How come politicians cost so much?"
The chief answered, "Do you know how hard it is to clean one of those?"
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posted on
12/04/2009 4:54:47 PM PST
by
MaxMax
(Obamao can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
To: denydenydeny
This evolved out of a mind set that developed in the sixties. The tome was all cultures are good until something intervened.
We all lived in multicultural self loving communities and had no reason to use force or violence against our neighbors whom we loved and copulated freely with, thus making us all brothers and sisters in Gaea.
The reality seems to be, at least in the LBK period of time , is that we copulated with their sisters and roasted the men for dinner.I have held for many years that Civilization empowers people and Christianity most certainly did that, women were just funny feeling factories before that, with out strong male protection.
Christianity gave women a place in the world top to bottom a set of responsibilities grounded in doctrine and law.
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posted on
12/04/2009 5:41:36 PM PST
by
Little Bill
(Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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posted on
12/04/2009 5:53:57 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
...political crisis in central Europe...The EU (Eat U).
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posted on
12/05/2009 12:56:34 PM PST
by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
What the hell kind of political crisis could they have had 7,000 years ago?
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posted on
12/05/2009 1:04:48 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
Probably one of Soros’ ancestors was the cause.
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posted on
12/06/2009 4:21:56 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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