{"id":1265,"date":"2009-12-08T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2009-12-08T00:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T00:35:00","slug":"cannibalism-in-old-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"Cannibalism in ‘Old Europe’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archaeologists have found evidence of possible long-term cannibalism at a 7,000-year-old Neolithic settlement in what is now southern Germany.<\/p>\n

Human sacrifice at Herxheim is a hypothesis that\u2019s difficult to prove right now, but we have evidence that several hundred people were eaten over a brief period,\u201d [Bruno] Boulestin says. Skeletal markings indicate that human bodies were butchered in the same way as animals.<\/i><\/p>\n

Other researchers suggest that the people were merely cleaning up the bones of the dead for a ceremonial reburial. But vultures, etc., would do that job for free–and still do in some parts of the world.<\/p>\n

But wait, this is Marija Gimbutas’ Old European Culture<\/a>, the peaceful ancient matriarchies. Were they eating each other?<\/p>\n

I think that it is safe to assume that prehistory was much more complicated than we imagine when we look at it through lenses of theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archaeologists have found evidence of possible long-term cannibalism at a 7,000-year-old Neolithic settlement in what is now southern Germany. Human sacrifice at Herxheim is a hypothesis that\u2019s difficult to prove right now, but we have evidence that several hundred people were eaten over a brief period,\u201d [Bruno] Boulestin says. Skeletal markings indicate that human bodies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,93],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-germany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-kp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":456,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=456","url_meta":{"origin":1265,"position":0},"title":"Ashes among the stonesSolstice is\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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