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MadrasTh0rn 1 hours ago [-]
Was subfloor burial common in Neolithic?
throwaway27448 18 minutes ago [-]
Estimating "common" is quite difficult, but given that there are pre-colonial aboriginal australian burial sites, we can estimate that it either can be traced to Africa or is sufficiently common to not be surprising. There is even evidence (not proof) of neanderthal burial rituals, fwiw.
itopaloglu83 2 hours ago [-]
Some people were quick to jump on the gun and call it a human sacrifice site, I’m glad that they’re all proven wrong now.
tastyfreeze 1 hours ago [-]
The phrase is "jump the gun" or "jumped the gun" as in a fault start in a race started with a gun.
hinkley 1 hours ago [-]
I always thought that 'ceremonial room' looked more like a sauna than a sacrificial pit. It reminded me of the Roman ruins at Bath more than anything else.
jamesforestwest 2 hours ago [-]
That's a much less romantic explanation than the skull cult stuff
throwaway27448 14 minutes ago [-]
The point of naming it a "skull cult" is really just pointing out people found human remains to be important—something largely true today too, and hardly more romantic than our own understanding of burial.