Ancient Russian Graves Show Human Bones Used for Jewelry Over 6,000 Years Ago

[johngaltshrugged]

This is kinda gruesome.
The bones of humans were discovered to be part of the bone jewelry discovered in ancient grave site on a Russian island that dated to 6200BC. At first they believed they were all animal bones but a mass spectrometry scan showed human proteins.

Maybe they did it to honor ancestors? More likely they used the bones of vanquished enemies, maybe as talismans to absorb their opponents strength.

VP Kamala Harris said she found it fascinating.
She said she never owned anything like that but she has worn thousands of pearl necklaces made from bones.

As a part of their research, the project scientists sent the bone pendants to the BioArCh research facility at the University of York in the United Kingdom. Researchers there used mass spectrometry technology to analyze proteins samples of the bones used to make the jewelry, which allowed for a precise identification of the species from which the bones came.

When the results of these tests were returned, the researchers were not surprised to discover that most of the samples came from elk bones or from those of an ancient bovine creature. But they were shocked to learn that 12 of 37 samples tested were identified as human bones.

Archaeologists have found jewelry made from human remains before including teeth and femur bones. But never in this part of the world, and the fact such jewelry could be dated to 6000 BC or earlier made the discovery even more extraordinary.

Finnish Study Reveals Human Bones Were Used to Make Jewelry in 6,000 BC

During the Late Stone Age, our prehistoric ancestors regularly constructed and presumably wore pendants covered with symbolic images.

www.ancient-origins.net

 

[Synthaholic]

And the Russians haven't evolved much since then. Still barbaric, still immoral, still inferior.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

And the Russians haven't evolved much since then. Still barbaric, still immoral, still inferior.

And don't we use aborted baby parts? And that's not 6,000 years ago

Glass houses

 

[rupol2000]

These are the territories of the Baltic or Saami cultures. There is nothing surprising here, traces of cannibalism were also found in these forested places, and entire tribes of cannibals lived in the region of Belarus and Lithuania, not 6000 thousand years ago, but only 10-15 centuries ago.

Similar traces are found throughout northern Europe, and they are very well preserved in peat.

 

[Pellinore]

It probably wasn't the bones of vanquished enemies. In 6000 BC (which is 8000 years ago, not 6) the world was just transitioning from hunter/gatherers to settling down; the people who made these graves were probably nomadic herdsmen who revisited this space regularly but didn't have a permanent home. There wasn't much war or even fighting at the time simply because there wasn't much to fight over, and the dangers of even a slight wound weren't worth the risk.

I think they're probably right about the ancestor worship.

 

[whitehall]

It seems like slim evidence to build a case on. Universities are known to fudge data to be the first to publish a discovery. Is it possible that the interpretation of the "mass spectrometry scan" of the specimen may have been faulty after 8k years underground? Something to consider before you accept a gruesome theory.

 

[Disir]

This is kinda gruesome.
The bones of humans were discovered to be part of the bone jewelry discovered in ancient grave site on a Russian island that dated to 6200BC. At first they believed they were all animal bones but a mass spectrometry scan showed human proteins.

Maybe they did it to honor ancestors? More likely they used the bones of vanquished enemies, maybe as talismans to absorb their opponents strength.

VP Kamala Harris said she found it fascinating.
She said she never owned anything like that but she has worn thousands of pearl necklaces made from bones.

As a part of their research, the project scientists sent the bone pendants to the BioArCh research facility at the University of York in the United Kingdom. Researchers there used mass spectrometry technology to analyze proteins samples of the bones used to make the jewelry, which allowed for a precise identification of the species from which the bones came.

When the results of these tests were returned, the researchers were not surprised to discover that most of the samples came from elk bones or from those of an ancient bovine creature. But they were shocked to learn that 12 of 37 samples tested were identified as human bones.

Archaeologists have found jewelry made from human remains before including teeth and femur bones. But never in this part of the world, and the fact such jewelry could be dated to 6000 BC or earlier made the discovery even more extraordinary.

Finnish Study Reveals Human Bones Were Used to Make Jewelry in 6,000 BC

During the Late Stone Age, our prehistoric ancestors regularly constructed and presumably wore pendants covered with symbolic images.

www.ancient-origins.net

I wonder if there is a connection between that and bone collectors like in China.

While some were buried unadorned, others were found with many tooth and bone ornaments, some of which seem to have been sewed onto the hems of long-decayed cloaks or coats or used as noisemakers in rattles.

8,200-year-old burials in Russia contain pendants crafted from human bone

A century-old archaeological excavation in Russia turns up a new surprise.

www.livescience.com

Powerful ancestors? Necromancy with the rattles. What better way to claim rulership? I know that other areas items were sewn into hems of warriors for protection.

 

[Unkotare]

Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor, not jewelry!