They said, 'Jebel Sahaba, better move away from there..."
Posted on 09/02/2021 12:05:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Many individuals buried at Jebel Sahaba bear injuries, half ot them caused by projectiles, the points of which were found in the bones or the fill where the body was located...
The bones of 61 individuals were re-examined, including microscopic analysis, in order to distinguish traces of injury from damage produced after burial. About a hundred new lesions, both healed and unhealed, were identified, some with previously unrecognised lithic flakes still embedded in the bones. In addition to the 20 individuals already identified, 21 other skeletons have lesions, almost all suggestive of interpersonal violence, such as traces of projectile impact or fractures. In addition, 16 individuals have both healed and unhealed injuries, suggesting repeated episodes of violence over the course of a person's life rather than a single conflict. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that some skeletons appear to have been disturbed by later burials. Surprisingly, men, women and children seem to have been treated indiscriminately in terms of the number and type of injuries or the projectiles direction.
These new data also reveal that the majority of lesions were produced by composite projectiles, throwing weapons (arrows or spears) composed of several sharp lithic pieces, some of which are laterally embedded. The presence of variously sharpened points, with variations in the orientation of the cutting edge, suggests that the intended purpose was to lacerate and bleed the victim.
These new results reject the hypothesis of a disaster cemetery linked to a single war. Instead, this site indicates a succession of limited raids or ambushes against these hunter-fisher-gatherers, at a time of major climatic variations (end of the last ice age and beginning of the African humid period).
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
We must recognize that war is common, strife is justice, and all things happen according to strife and necessity.
War is father of all and king of all; and some he manifested as gods, some as men; some he made slaves, some free.-- Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 535 – c. 475 BC)
They said, 'Jebel Sahaba, better move away from there..."
It sounds like the work of Conan, the barbarian.
The state of nature is war of all against all.
“...no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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Sloppy. With the all the microscopic analyses of wounds, I was surprised that they had not undertaken genetic analyses to determine how or even if the buried persons were related to each other.
All kinds of information could have be learned. Might even add some real facts to substantiate all the speculative climate change claims being made at the end of the article.
Consider what this group concluded from analyzing pre-contact Maya feces from a major city that was layered on a nearby river bottom:
Now there is an example of a thorough, professional approach. < / sarcasm>
I think this is the burial ground associated with a large settlement that was covered by a terminal ash layer (rich with spearheads and arrowheads) representing the burning of the settlement to the ground and its extinction. So, yeah. :^)
<>The results, published in Scientific Reports on May 27, 2021, show that it was not a single armed conflict but rather a succession of violent episodes, probably exacerbated by climate change.<>
As I said, the agenda never sleeps.
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