Vráble Neolithic Bodies

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Since the #Vráble #skeletons have arrived from Nitra, there has been some progress in the #bone department 💀🦴🧹💧📷📐👀 cleaning routine, #photogrammetry & #3Dmodelling are being established!
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Most read: #1, "Headless bodies hint at why Europe's first farmers vanished"

I guess @science.org readers are really interested in why Europe's first farmers vanished! That, or headless bodies.

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Colleagues have done calculations for communal labor investments for neolithic earthworks and enclosures, e.g.
doi.org/10.7183/0002...
More on the different aspects of enclosures, e.g.
doi.org/10.1007/s108...
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
More on LBK enclosures, e.g.
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Indeed! One aim of the project is to better understand the ditch structure & construction – digging out seperate long pits which were later connected (as, e.g., at Herxheim) is an option too! However, communal efforts in the neolithic are well-known, just take a look at those megaliths... 🪨🪦

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How can Neolithic waste help us understand how Europe's first farmers adapted to a more sedentary lifestyle? Our new joint project with the University of York, "RENEW: From Refuse to Resource: Ceramic and Bone Wastescapes in the Early Neolithic of Europe" hopes to shed light on this.
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A quick note from the Vráble team, since this archaeological structures are crucial for interpretation: while the ditch system is well traceable in the ground, an earthen 'wall' is not, and we're struggeling to see a closed palisade – research is still going on here, so stay tuned! 👀

#Settlement area, economy, and #headlessbodies in the ditch – #Vráble is undoubtedly one of the most exceptional #LBK sites. However, without our partners, the specialists at the #SlovakAcademyOfSciences, it would have remained hidden forever… 🇸🇰
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Masovna sahrana skeleta bez lobanja - 7.000 godina stara misterija neolitskog naselja Vráble - Sve o arheologiji Masovna sahrana skeleta bez lobanja - 7.000 godina stara misterija neolitskog naselja Vráble Na velikom neolitskom naselju Vráble arheolozi su otkrili masovnu sahranu sa više desetina bačenih skeleta,...

...and another blog post featuring the ' #Vráble mystery' from Serbia 🇷🇸
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A fascinating article by @andrewcurry.com @science.org!
🔬....we hope to find out soon whether 'killings/massacres' actually happened in Vráble or whether ritual practices took place here–skull removal and decapitation are different procedures... 💀👀 stay tuned!
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Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture

In 2022, archaeologists at @uni-kiel.de's @neolithicbodies.bsky.social found 34 decapitated skeletons piled in a space the size of a parking spot. In the 3 years since, they’ve found 50 more. The mass grave is evidence for the collapse of the 1st pan-European culture 7,000 years ago. @science.org 🏺💀

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2nd week of excavations in Vráble is over! We've found the first bones of more -headless?- skeletons & look forward to bringing them to light! Here you see our experts discussing more archaeological finds...
#neolithic #LBK #archaeologistslife #humanremains
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