2020
Grindstone: Grinding... and Human Sacrifice? Why?
Abstract: Three features, dated to diverse periods of prehistory (Neolithic: Transdanubian Linear Pottery Culture; Bronze Age: Tumulus culture; Iron Age: Celtic Period) are presented in the current study. One of our main goals is to encourage the introduction of an otherwise generally accepted protocol for the investigation and sampling of similar phenomena to Hungarian archaeological research. The method focuses on the examination of 1, complete or partial human skeletal remains; 2, complete or partial animal skeletal …
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“…Moreover, at Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, the monumental structure accessible to only a select few with the alignment of structures concerning summer and winter solstices, symbolizing the agricultural cycle, the abundance of silos representing food security, and the arrangement of two women facing the central figure suggest a profound interconnection between religious systems and power structure in an agricultural society. The structuring of rituals over time is linked to the convergence of several phenomena: the practice of ritualistic self-strangulation, which may have been an ancient phenomenon dating back to the Mesolithic, the deposits of grindstones that appear in the Early Neolithic Mediterranean ( 22 ) and are found quite rapidly in Central Europe ( 64 ), and the presence of gathering centers, the oldest of which seem to be the ditched roundels, circular enclosures often concentric with openings sometimes oriented toward the rising sun. These are occasionally associated with a possible function as ritual gathering places and appeared in Central Europe at the beginning of the fifth millennium, related to the Lengyel culture ( 65 ).…”
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