The mass burial had about 35 decapitated skeletons.
Archaeologists investigating an early Neolithic settlement in Slovakia have discovered the battered remains of about 35 people, many of them teenagers, who appear to have been decapitated and then thrown into a ditch almost 7,000 years ago.
"We have a ditch around a site where people are living, and then you put people in the ditch — whether they were killed deliberately, or died of natural causes — because probably there were ideas about the magical or symbolic power that these [dead] people had," he said.
Human sacrificeThe ancient mass grave is near one of the entrances to the settlement at Vráble, and several aspects suggest the people dumped there were deliberately killed, possibly by decapitation. The bodies lay in various positions — on their backs, on the sides, on their stomachs, or with the arms and legs widely spread and bent at the elbows and knees,"like a swimming frog," Hukeľová said."This is one of the positions indicating that the body was probably thrown into the pit."
Ancient mysteryFurholt said the Neolithic settlement at Vráble consisted of up to 80"longhouses" at any one time, with each longhouse being the home of one or more extended families.
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