Comment

They genocided each other too.

The skeletal remains that we find of males at dig sites have vast amounts of damage to them, and we find significantly less women and girl skeletal remains. Aeons later and the heterogeneity of the Y chromosome is suspiciously low in contrast to that shown in mtDNA. That’s a lot of killing and raping

source

Sort:hotnew top

LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Wait, I am stupid. Does that mean that many men died, and only few procreated? And assuming the birth rates are the same, why wouldn’t there be women skeletons? After all, everyone dies, whether in a fist fight over who gets to have sex or of cancer at like 70?

source
- tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Does that mean that many men died, and only few procreated?
  
  Actively bludgeoned by another tribe and then thrown in a pit
  
  why wouldn’t there be women skeletons?
  
  They are not killed, but captured and carried away as spoils of war to the conquering tribe
  
  source
  - Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    They are not killed, but captured and carried away as spoils of war to the conquering tribe
    
    So why aren’t there women skeletons at those conquering tribes? They had to die somewhere.
    
    source
    arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I belive you misread, they said a high number of males with evidence of trauma. Basically a very large percentage of male skeletons showed damage. The origin comment didn’t say there were no female skeletons.
    
    Also depending on the dig site mass graves of men killed in combat are common. Those would obviously lack women.
    
    source
    tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    So why aren’t there women skeletons at those conquering tribes? They had to die somewhere.
    
    There probably are, but we don’t stumble across them as easily as we do the mass grave dig sites I think
    
    source