Ancient Bones Reveal Victory Rituals after Europe’s Earliest Wars
A new isotope-based investigation of Neolithic mass deposits in northeastern France suggests some of Europe’s earliest wars didn’t end when the fighting stopped. Instead, the winners may have staged chilling “victory celebrations,” bringing home severed left arms as trophies and killing other captives in a public ritual meant to shame enemies and bind the community together.
The study, published in Science Advances, analyzed 82 humans from the Alsace region (around 4300–4150 cal BC) and found statistically significant chemical differences between those treated “normally” in burials and those dumped in pits with evidence of overkill, mutilation, and trophy-taking.
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Achenheim and Bergheim: pits of overkill and severed limbs
At Achenheim and Bergheim, archaeologists documented complete or near-complete skeletons with multiple unhealed injuries – evidence of “overkill,” violence beyond what’s required to kill - alongside isolated segments of severed left upper limbs. The authors note this combination has no close match in the European Neolithic record, and doesn’t fit neatly with classic “massacre” scenarios.
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Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/neolithic-warfare-rituals-00102506
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