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Early Bronze Age Butchered Human Remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK
- sgt101 2y agoIf you've ever been to a rural Somerset pub after 9pm this should come as no surprise.
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- gerdesj 2y ago"Midsomer Murders" is actually a documentary series.
- grumblepeet 2y agoI used to walk my dog there occasionally and he hates it and was always edgy. I took my cue from him and we go elsewhere now.
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- Koala_ice 2y agoThis was probably a tastier meal than you can get in Somerset now.
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- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoEvidence of cannibalism. Yummy
- monero-xmr 2y agoHuman / child sacrifice. Cannibalism. Happened all over the world. 10 Commandments saying “Thou Shalt Not Kill” is because inhuman religious practices were literally killing children.
- JohnMakin 2y agoI don’t know if I understand the reasoning behind them concluding it had to be a single event. Why couldn’t it have been a drawn out event like cannibalism, or a single individual like a serial killer? They don’t seem to provide very sound reasoning to this conclusion and use that assumption throughout the rest of the paper.
- madaxe_again 2y agoIndeed; while it’s great that they did isotopic analysis of the teeth, bone sections, particularly the long bones of adolescents, would reveal if a starvation event was ongoing at the time, and would at least rule out starvation cannibalism, which they hypothesise as possible but unlikely, although don’t give a reason beyond the presence of cattle for it being unlikely. What if, for instance, they were all dropping dead of some pestilence, and it’s been a bitter winter and a late spring, and you’re short on labour, and your little society is collapsing and protein is scarce. I don’t know. Hard decisions have been made many times through history.
- potato3732842 2y agoStarvation would hit other demographic first and harder. The very young and very old would be heavily represented instead. If you're gonna kill people for food teenagers will be the last people you'll kill due to resources invested in them ant potential future yields. You're gonna kill 5yos or something.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoI think you are making a ton of assumptions about the hypothetical starvation event. First, if you are killing people for food, you are going to take what you can get. This might be the neighboring tribe of all ages, as described in the article.
- karaterobot 2y agoI think they're saying it was a single event because (so they also say) all 37 people were all killed in the same way: close-range, with a blunt instrument, and at what they assume—from the carbon dating and location of the bones—was about the same time. They do jump to the conclusion that it was a massacre pretty quickly, but it does make enough sense, I guess. They speculate that cannibalism could have been involved, but don't talk about a serial killer. It seems a stretch for someone in a Bronze Age society to secretly commit 37 murders, followed by systematic butchery of the bodies, and then burial in a common grave. 37 people may have been the majority of people in your tribal unit, so it would be kind of hard to kill them all without someone noticing!