researcher working near the Alken Enge wetlands in East Jutland have excavate a rather sick artefact dating back to the First Century A.D. — a wooden joystick bearing the pelvic bones of four fallen warriors .
The Iron Age fight wage near Alken Enge take place in Northern Europe as a result of the Roman Empire ’s northward expansion , which put pressure on the Germanic clan . This resulted in wars between the Romans and the Germanic tribes , and between the Germanic people themselves .
Back in 2012 , Danish archeologist unveil the bones of an entire USA whose approximately 200 warrior had been throw into the bog after losing an engagement around 1 advertizement . In the dig since , they ’ve also found a skull with a cakehole in the back from a projectile or spear , a thighbone baseball swing in half , and numerous other bones and weapons .
This year ’s mining is show no less interesting or macabre . The discovery of four human pelvic bones on a stake , along with bones bearing mark of cut and altercate , and crushed skulls , have the archaeologists searching for an explanation . But the grim artifact are potential the remnants of a religious enactment .
Researcher Peter Jensen created this 3D invigoration of the artifact shown in situ :
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The corpse of the fallen were gathered together and all the pulp was clean from the bones , which were then sorted and brutally desecrated before being cast into the lake . The warriors ’ bone are mixed with the stiff of slaughter fauna and clay pots that probably contained solid food sacrifice .
“ We are fairly certain that this was a religious human action . It seems that this was a holy site for a pagan faith – a sacred grove – where the victorious determination of major struggle was marked by the ritual intro and devastation of the bones of the vanquished warrior , ” adds Mads Kähler Holst .
Geological study have revealed that back in the Iron Age , the finds were thrown into the water from the destruction of a clapper of land that unfold out into Mossø lake , which was much larger back then than it is today .
“ Most of the bones we find here are spread out over the lake bed on the face of it at random , but the raw finds have all of a sudden given us a clear feeling of what in reality happen . This applies in particular to the four pelvic bones .
The archaeologists mistrust that the bones were thread onto the joystick after the anatomy was cleaned from the skeleton .
[ Aaruhus UniversityviaThe History Blog ]
image : Peter Jensen , Aarhus University
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