7,500 years old mass burial in Turkey


	7,500 years old mass burial in Turkey

invictus

4-13-2007 7:40 PM

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turkey, anatolia, archaeology, mass burial, domuztepe

invictus says:

The Domuztepe riddle is among the real-life mysteries from the world of archaeology that will be on display from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, when the Cotsen Institute at UCLA — the nation's largest collection of working archaeologists — throws open its doors to the public.

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painstakingly excavated the remains of more than 40 decapitated and
dismembered people who met their end some 7,500 years ago. Although
the mound is one of earliest mass burial sites ever discovered, the
archaeologists still aren't sure what they have on their
hands.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://northdenvernews.com/content/view/728/2/"><P>Who dismantled the bodies and why? And
were the teeth marks on the bones actually made — as they
appear to be — by humans?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://northdenvernews.com/content/view/728/2/"><P>"We're trying to find out whether we're
looking at warfare, cannibalism or some kind of ritual we don't
know about," said Elizabeth Carter, lead archaeologist on the dig
and a researcher with UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.
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