Posted on 08/01/2004 7:15:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Victims of every age, social class and sex were chosen. An exceptional proportion had a physical impairment of some kind. 'Overkill' was normal - a single individual might, for example, be garotted, bludgeoned, drowned and have his or her throat cut before being cast into the bog. In Britain this prehistoric practice, although always a rare event, was apparently unaffected by the Roman conquest... [T]he ritual killings of prisoners of war, sent to Rome to be paraded around the streets and executed in public, carried on.
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Human Sacrifice Was Rarer Than Thought ^
Posted by blam
On News/Activism ^ 07/22/2004 4:53:50 PM PDT with 39 comments
ABC Science News ^ | 7-22-2004 | Anna Salleh
Human sacrifice was rarer than thought Anna Salleh in Brisbane ABC Science Online Thursday, 22 July 2004 Did this skull from the Lichtenstein cave come from someone who was sacrificed or who died naturally? (Image: Stefan Flindt) Bronze Age ritual human sacrifice may have been rarer than believed, according to a unique study of ancient DNA from bones in central Europe. German anthropologist Dr Susanne Hummel from the University of Göttingen presented her team's research at a recent ancient DNA conference in Brisbane, Australia. Hummel said the research was also the first to use ancient DNA to complete a family...
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