Headless skeletons offer new insights into farming societies 7,000 years ago
Researchers say 77 of 78 skeletons lacked heads, suggesting skulls were removed in a ritual rather than a mass decapitation.
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Do dozens of skeletons without skulls found in a 7000-year-old settlement in Slovakia bear witness to a massacre? A study concludes that the separation of the heads did not take place through raw violence, but purposefully. But what conclusions does this allow?
Dozens of human skeletons of 7,000 years ago apparently stacked at random.All of them headless.They looked like the disturbing vestiges of a Neolithic massacre, proof of a gruesome tribal conflict near the present town of Vrable, in Slovakia.Continue reading...
77 headless skeletons found in a field date back 7,000 years
It sounds like a scene out of a horror movie. Dozens of headless human skeletons resting in a single grave. First discovered in 2022, this Neolithic burial site near the present-day town of Vráble, Slovakia, raises significantly more questions than it answers. Was this the site of a grisly massacre 7,000 years ago? Were the individuals sacrificed? Is it the result of some kind of plague? A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Pr…
Headless skeletons offer new insights into farming societies 7,000 years ago
Dozens of human skeletons, lying apparently randomly on and next to each other, with their skulls missing, present a terrifying sight at first glance. Since 2022, this is what researchers have been excavating in a 7,000-year-old settlement near the present-day town of Vráble in Slovakia. Are the headless skeletons the remains of a Neolithic massacre, representing gruesome evidence of a crisis in ancient society?
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