Let's have a thread about European pre-history. I just learned about this little episode today. Some real fucking Mad Max shit desu. >The evidence indicates that the bodies were cooked, probably by spit-roasting them whole (including the heads) over open fires. Both flesh and bone marrow were eaten, and the skulls were processed into cups.[9] An analysis of the bones shows that the victims had lived in a variety of geographical regions – some might have lived near Herxheim, others in other regions populated by the Linear Pottery culture, and a third group had lived in mountainous areas not inhabited by members of that culture.[10] The treatment of the skull cups (which were used as drinking vessels while feasting on their former owners and then discarded) suggests that the dead were regarded as enemies or outsiders rather than as esteemed relatives or community members (in the latter case, skull cups were sometimes made as well, but kept as honoured relics).[11]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herxheim_(archaeological_site)
>>18588142tl;dr7 thousand years ago some sort of Cannibal Cult seems to have taken over this settlement. For about 50 years they are capturing people from near and far (more than a thousand) and eating them. Then the whole settlement gets burned to the fucking ground and destroyed, likely by a coalition of their pissed off neighbors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp6WUHoGxgw
>>18588254If it makes you feel better and for the sake of also bumping the thread:https://web.archive.org/web/20070927045415/http://www.urgeschichte.uni-tuebingen.de/fileadmin/downloads/Haidle/HerxheimConflictArch2006.pdf
>>18588147Do we have genetic samples? I want to see the cannibals on a PCA
>>18588142It wasn't mad max.It was organised.
>>18588285EEF
>>18588294Yeah and it was crazy to learn this because I've always seen eef be associated with fairly peaceful kinds of lifestyles. I kind of think the cannibal stuff might be somewhat WHG derived because there are quite a few other instances of it from before the anatolians arrived. I never heard of the farmers capturing their enemies to eat them and drink out of their skulls until now lol.
>>18588290There are many distinct organized societies in the Mad Max world.
>>18588341Eating wheat causes schizophreniahttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4809873/
