Neolithic women in Europe were tied up and buried alive in ritual sacrifices, study suggests

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The research found evidence of the "incaprettamento" method of murder at 14 Neolithic sites in Europe.

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[DAR]

"Crubézy said it wasn't known why incaprettamento was used for Stone Age human sacrifices, but it might have been because a person bound in this way could be seen as strangling themselves, rather than being killed by someone else."

This would make no sense because a person obviously could not bind THEMSELVES in this manner!

 

[Lemmy Caution]

The article rather confusingly presents us with two widely separate years in which the burial of the two sacrificial victims is thought to have taken place. First we are told these burials are estimated to have occurred around the year 5,400 BCE. Further along in the narrative, on the other hand, we are informed these sacrificial burials took place approximately 5,500 years ago. The obvious problem with this divergent chronology is that there is a substantial difference, which is to say all of 1900 years, between 5,500 years ago and the earlier noted figure of 5,400 BCE, which amounts to fully 7400 years ago.