Posted on 08/18/2015 6:16:15 AM PDT by ETL
BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say they have found rare evidence of a prehistoric massacre in Europe after discovering a 7,000-year-old mass grave with skeletal remains from some of the continent's first farmers bearing terrible wounds.
Archaeologists who painstakingly examined the bones of some 26 men, women and children buried in the Stone Age grave site at Schoeneck-Kilianstaedten, near Frankfurt, say they found blunt force marks to the head, arrow wounds and deliberate efforts to smash at least half of the victims' shins — either to stop them from running away or as a grim message to survivors.
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"What is particularly interesting is the level of violence. Not just the suppression of a rival community — if that is what it was — but the egregious and systematic breaking of the lower legs," said Scarre. "It suggests the use of terror tactics as part of this inter-community violence."
Meyer, an anthropologist at the University of Mainz, Germany, said nobody can say for sure what prompted the killings so long after the fact. But it's possible to put forward theories, based on what's known about the LBK culture and the conditions they faced. For example, the end of LBK culture coincided with a period of climate change.
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Was someone there to drink wine and sell their body parts?
I doubt it. People were more civilized back then. No Planned Parenthood, etc...
#prehistoriceuropeanlivesmatter
now all i need to find is a nearby bernie sanders rally. :p
“The attackers, however, spared some members of the group, with victims skewed toward young children, adult men and older women.
“It’s likely that the young women, who are missing in the grave, were kidnapped by the attackers,” said Meyer.”
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who knew?
they killed each other back then?
too many guns in the cave....
Scientists find evidence of Unions in prehistoric Europe.
Breaking the legs is obvious.
It prevents the survivors from running away, allowing them to be killed and eaten later. There were plenty of dead for immediate consumption, but no good way to preserve meat.
Were they out of salt? What do you think, outofsalt?
But seriously, how can you suggest with such confidence that they ate some of the victims of the brutality?
Were there Moslems back then?
Prehistoric Rock Engraving With Moose And
Rowing Ships
Maybe they were just tenderizing and not preserving.
It’s a preview of things to come. The settled, peaceful farmers had prosperous communities all over that part of Europe. As the climate worsened, refugees started showing up and they took them in, saying “we have plenty for all!”
As the climate got really bad, the refugees turned on the peace-loving Democrats er, farmers, killed them off, and migrated elsewhere, taking their women along.
Ohhhhh, wait, wait-—
ROCKS DON’T KILL PEOPLE
PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE :)
“BAN THE ROCK!!” The Og Brady Cave Foundation
"I agree, Dude. Rocks are dangerous. They need to be banned!"
"People don't kill people. Rocks do."
"I am, like, soo totally in favor of rock control."
Please...this is serious. I lost a dear friend of
mine to a rock attack.
Perhaps democrat women were better looking then. Because it's hard to find many attractive ones around today. On the other hand, pretty conservative women are everywhere.
Democrats back then starved to death pretty quickly. There weren't any to speak of. For one thing negative numbers hadn't been invented yet so there wasn't much government spending.
Prehistoric Rock Engraving With Moose And
Rowing Ships
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