Info Of 'German Stonehenge' Yields Grisly Show Of Sacrificed Women As Well As Children

A reconstruction of the 4,300-year-old Pömmelte enclosure.

Credit: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt” (State Office for Heritage Management as well as Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt); lensman Juraj Lipták

The broken, battered bones of children, teenagers as well as women discovered at the newly excavated "German Stonehenge" may live on bear witness of ancient human sacrifice, a novel report finds.

Archaeologists constitute the fractured skulls as well as rib bones buried inwards pits with axes, drinking vessels, butchered creature bones as well as querns (stone mills) at an archeology site close Pömmelte, a hamlet inwards FRG most 85 miles (136 kilometers) southwest of Berlin.

The victims' concluding moments were gruesome; it appears they were thrown or pushed into the pit, as well as that at to the lowest degree ane of the teenagers had their hands fountain together, said report atomic number 82 researcher André Spatzier, an archeologist at the State Office for the Preservation of Historic Monuments at Baden-Württemberg, a field inwards southwest Germany. 

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