German archeologists made a shocking discovery near the western german town of Herxheim in a stone age mass grave.
About five hundred bodies ( at least) discovered until now bear marks as if the meat has been cut off their bones like livestock. The dead had been living in relatively far off places as the modern Paris area or the valley of the river Elbe, about four hundred kilometres to the north east and had apparently made pilgrimages to the place ( about 5000 BC ! ) that is now Herxheim to be sacrificed themselves. At least that is what experts suspect because the dead brought pottery and other things that their bodies were carefully buried with.........


Stone Age Mystery: German Excavation Reveals Signs of Mass Cannibalism - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Interesting and really bizare story and surprising that people moved such distances, only to get killed for whatever reasons.

I don't know why, but somehow I had to think about one of the "Conan the barbarian" (with Anrnie) movie, while reading the story.

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I don't think any thinking person would be shocked to learn that stone age man was a cannibal or sacrificed humans for cult reasons. I wouldn't be surprised if such practices extended well into the bronze age.

Not that they sacrificed human beeings. But that these humans apparently traveled large distances at that time to have themselves sacrificed ( according to the theory) is really a bizarre story.........

somebody had to carry the stuff and you never know if there will be food stores once you get there.

planning is everything.

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How is 100 kilometers a large distance? Even 400 kms is less than a week of walking.

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Since we are talking about the Stone age ? These people weren´t walking to the place where they turned themselves in to be sacrificed on highways., they did not have landmaps or snack bars by the road

a hundred clicks is quite far for that time.
of course there were mauaraders who travelled much farther but they had diferent goals.

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interesting find Voland!

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So I take it they didn't smoke then

You are not into endurance sports much, are you?

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Perhaps they didn't go voluntarily?

Do you have any idea what kind of terrain you are talking about?

Sure today 100km is nothing; but given no roads, no cultivated landscape/rivers and so on, 100 kms have been a damn long way back then.

Anyway given how unbelieveable tinny the population back then must have been, a mass grave with 1000 corpes in it, is truelly gigantic in it's dimension.

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bingo, we have a winner

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Yes.

No.

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Bubble Gun, there are other considerations to take into account than pure distance. Sure, you might be able to do 100 km in a day and a half or so over rough terrain carrying 30+ Kg, but you most likely are not malnourished and probably never have been. Your height is likely at least two feet over the height of the people we are talking about, and you likely haven't suffered as many injuries, and for those you have suffered you've probably had decent medical care. Even if you're a couch potato you're probably bigger and stronger than most of these guys were.

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