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| Scientists find evidence of prehistoric massacre in Europe |
| 2015-08-19 |
| BERLIN — 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. "It was either torture or mutilation. We can't say for sure whether the victims were still alive," said Christian Meyer, one of the authors of the study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Meyer said the findings from Schoeneck-Kilianstaedten bolster theories put forward after the earlier discovery of two other grave sites in Germany and Austria. At all three sites, the victims and the perpetrators appeared to have been from the Linearbandkeramik — or LBK — culture, a farming people who arrived in central Europe about 5,500 B.C. Their name derives from the German phrase for "linear band ceramics," a reference to the style of their pottery. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #13 LBK was a great president. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2015-08-19 20:12 |
| #12 96% correlation between not enough food and cranky. Correlation is not cousin marriage tho. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-08-19 16:53 |
| #11 Only if they also found a scorecard 0-0. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-08-19 16:39 |
| #10 Damage to their shins? Europe? Soccer match gone horribly wrong. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-08-19 16:23 |
| #9 I'm betting that was actually global cooling, Or global crankiness. Because sometimes you just want to kill people. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-08-19 14:27 |
| #8 What kind of shirts were they wearing? |
| Posted by: Tarzan Untervehr7299 2015-08-19 14:11 |
| #7 "After all this time, what does it matter" Hilldabeest |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2015-08-19 13:14 |
| #6 the first Joooo pogrom in Europe? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-08-19 10:38 |
| #5 surely the massacre was the result of global warming Global something, at any rate, lord garth. From the article: 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. I'm betting that was actually global cooling, because the good anthropologist carefully did not say. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-08-19 10:36 |
| #4 The question is....how much was Hillary involved. What did she know and why did she wipe them out. Did she give them a 'reset' button first? |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2015-08-19 06:39 |
| #3 surely the massacre was the result of global warming |
| Posted by: lord garth 2015-08-19 06:15 |
| #2 If not for the Schoeneck-Kilianstaedtonians, it would be a lovely country. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-08-19 02:25 |
| #1 It was the PLA vs Hamas. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2015-08-19 01:00 |