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In east-central Sweden, workers demolishing a railway that crossed the Motala Ström River discovered something bizarre. For roughly 7,500 years, a shallow, swampy lake in the area had hidden a pile of stones that contained the skeletal remains of at least 10 people and weapons made of stone and antler. They also found the bones of bears, deer, boar, and a badger. Two of the human skulls were mounted on pointed stakes.
Thousands of years ago, this semi-submerged burial ground must have been an imposing sight for the small settlements located nearby. A pile of rocks rose above the water, covered in weapons, wooden structures, and the grisly remains of fearsome animals—as well as the skulls of some carefully chosen people. Now dubbed "Kanaljorden," the archaeological site has finally begun to yield some secrets about the people who created it. In a recent article for Antiquity, Stockholm University archaeologist Sara Gummesson and her colleagues explain what the evidence reveals about how this ritual site was used.
Though we've seen lots of heads on stakes in Game of Thrones and various movies, Kanaljorden is the first time anyone has found evidence in real life that Stone Age people in this area were mounting heads on stakes. And their reasons are not quite what you might imagine.
Antiquity, 2018. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2017.210
Source: ArsTechnica
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 24 2018, @02:29AM (1 child)
Now, it is their puritan White heads which are impaled by the spikes of Black men.
Big Black men. Those large filthy cocks are impregnating your women!!!
And you lily-liverred punks aren't gonna do a Goddamn thing about it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @12:12PM
Oh really? Well, let's consider for a moment there was a superior race of invaders who took our land, killed me and other men of the land and impregnated our women.
They might have killed us and took our brides, but they will also impregnate our sisters and daughters too, and therefore leave their superior genes to our nephews and grandsons, who will avenge us in the end!
There is a yang way of reclaiming your birthright, but there is also a yin way ...
So, it all boils down to which parent gave you the parent's love. E.g. white Americans took Africans into slavery, and made children to their captive women, but then just threw their own offspring back into the mud huts. The rest is history and one prominent TV show.