It turns out , savage could be middling damn barbaric if they wanted to be .
Archaeologists have latterly stumbled across the gruesome consequence of a fierce battle between northern European clan around 2,000 twelvemonth ago . Discovered in a dank bog on the Danish peninsula of Jutland , they uncovered thousands of bones belonging to an figure 380 men and boy , as documented in the journalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .
The find of axes , spearhead , steel , and shields strongly intimate this was a battleground . This was further sustain by the discovery of skeletal cadaver with clear signs of corpse mutilation . Most of the frame shared signs of “ unhealed trauma from sharp - edged weapon , ” which suggest they received them just before they died , without time to cure .
Many also featured foreign Simon Marks that bespeak they were shorten , chopped , genuflect , butchered , and play around with it after they died . creature tooth marks suggest the bodies remained on the " battleground " for around six months to a year before being move into what would have been a lake but is now peatland .
Strangest of all , they even found four pelvic bones that had been “ plow ” together on a peg ( pictured below ) , suggesting that someone proceed around collecting the bone together in a bizarre rite to take in the battlefield of the dead .
" Those four pelvises on a peg could almost sharpen to having intension to intimate mortification . It seems to have aggressive undertones to it as well . So it has been difficult to say who did it , ” cobalt - author Mette Løvschal , of the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Aarhus University , toldAFP .
" And you could see stuff that you could commonly not see in them like the gnaw marks of animals and the cutting mark from sharp weapon . That is extremely strange , " she added .
The clock time of this battle would have coincided with the northern enlargement of the Roman Empire , although it was mostly Teutonic tribes fighting inter - tribal warfare , not tike fighting Roman warriors .
The Romans referred to non - papistical groups of masses as tike , such as the Teutonic tribes , the Huns , and the Celts . The word “ barbarian”is say tohave total from the Ancient Greeks , who believe their “ barbarian ” neighbour in the S sounded like they were enounce “ stripe bar cake ” when they were babble out .
As these bones show , it ’s easy to see why the Roman saw them as war - obsessed animate being .
