Comment on Anon crunches some numbers

• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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  • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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