Part of the burial site.Photo: Qian Wang/Texas A&M University School of Dentistry
Posted on 11/11/2023 10:57:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A new study discovers that ancient headless skeletons discovered in mass graves in China are the remains of victims who were massacred around 4,100 years ago in headhunting events.
In China, researchers discovered a mass grave containing 41 headless skeletons. The Honghe site grave contains the largest known Neolithic Chinese headhunting massacre. Thrity-two individuals appear to have been killed during the same event.
Since its initial discovery in the 1990s, the gruesome site has been the subject of six different excavations. In the most recent, researchers discovered 68 skeletons in two houses and three tombs, including 41 without heads. The bodies are 4,100 to 4,400 years old. In addition, the team also found the skulls of four men in a pit outside the house and several bone tools buried alongside the skeletons.
Unusually, all the victims were women or children. Every skeleton has cut marks across the neck vertebrae and several have V- and U-shaped cuts on the second vertebra. The assailants used bone-handled knives with stone blades. The similarity of these markings suggests that the killings were part of the same attack.
These cutting tools were likely bone-handled instruments with stone blades, consistent with findings in the Honghe area, paralleling the same technique across the board in the perpetrator's techniques and weapons. They indicate "the presence of a conscious head-hunting behavior"...
The researchers suggest that the men may have been away working during the attack and returned to find the massacred bodies of their loved ones. They then chose to bury them in the houses before abandoning the settlement.
Meanwhile, researchers believe that the four skulls found in the pit may be "trophies" brought by members of the Honghe settlement from another enemy tribe.
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Part of the burial site.Photo: Qian Wang/Texas A&M University School of Dentistry
Somewhere, there’s a stack of skulls...
I might be mistaken, but I can’t recall ever hearing of finds like this in Europe. Always Asia, Africa, or South America. If someone can correct my memory, please do so.
I didn’t know Hamas had its roots in ancient China!
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Could be a plague where ignorant savages decided that evil corpses had spirits in their heads, and took public safety steps to protect the tribe.
That would have shown up in the lab analysis. Also there were animal bones with the same characteristics (lots of dogs). Not likely to be infected with the same dieases.
Agreed. Hypotheses need cross functional review before they can be considered for becoming a theory.
I mourn the loss and contempt for Scentific Theory in modern times. (Climate “Crisis”, Zero Carbon Vehicles, Lockdowns for public good, safe and effective, etc.)
Uyghurs...
Here is a list from the New World long before the White Man was around to take the blame.
http://wkfl.asn.au/bk/crow_creek_history.htm
https://ournativeamericans.blogspot.com/2018/07/1300s-crow-creek-massacre-in-south.html
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/massacre-sacred-ridge
https://bonesdontlie.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/basketmaker-ii-cave-7-massacre-or-cemetery/
https://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/1991/12/01/scalping-victim/
https://prezi.com/z9ioohxrdgat/anasazi-cannibalism/?fallback=1
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39268873
Meanwhile, there’s a primitive drum section, and a bunch of savages chanting, “I’m hungry for those good things, baby...”
Tribes in Britain practiced beheading, cannibalism, in both war and ritual. They also were hanging people in wicker cages to roast alive over fires-this was witnessed by the Roman soldiers in Britain less than 2000 years ago. Also-look up some archaeological finds from early Norway, Denmark, etc-plenty of beheading, trophy-taking, etc there. And don’t overlook the area that is now Spain and France, etc. Everybody beheaded, slaughtered, practiced cannibalism, with or without conflict as an excuse at some time in the past because humans have never really been nice-it isn’t a race or ethnic thing...
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