Archaeological Mystery: Why Are So Many Women Buried in This 5600-Year-Old Necropolis?

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-01 15:36:41 | Updated at 2024-10-01 17:26:32 2 hours ago

Archaeological Mystery: Why Are So Many Women Buried in This 5600-Year-Old Necropolis?
SciTechDaily ^ | September 30, 2024 | University of Granada

Posted on 10/01/2024 8:22:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

The necropolis of Panoría is located at the easternmost end of Sierra Harana, in the town of Darro (Granada). It consists of at least 19 graves, 9 of which have been excavated between 2015 and 2019. They are collective burials from which more than 55,000 human skeletal remains were recovered. The dating of these remains shows that the first burials took place 5600 years ago with a discontinuous funerary use until 4100 years ago.Bioarchaeological AdvancesIn a recent study published in the prestigious journal Scientific Reports, the use of new bioarchaeological methods has allowed the identification of chromosomal sex from the study of DNA and the analysis of a protein known as Amelogenin present in the tooth enamel.

In this way, it has been possible, for the first time, to obtain a precise demographic profile of the biological sex of the people who were buried in these megalithic monuments. Surprisingly, the result is a clear bias in favour of female burials, twice that of male burials, a bias that is even more pronounced among juvenile individuals with a ratio of 10 females for every male individual.

This ratio is far from the usual composition of human populations, which is approximately one to one. Only in exceptional circumstances, e.g. conflicts, wars or intense migration processes, does this ratio break down in favour of one of the sexes.

(Excerpt) Read more at scitechdaily.com ...

TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; archaeoastronomy; darro; godsgravesglyphs; granada; helixmakemineadouble; megaliths; necropolis; neolithic; panora; sierraharana; spain

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.

1 posted on 10/01/2024 8:22:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

Thanks for link.

2 posted on 10/01/2024 8:23:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

To: SunkenCiv

Instant reaction is sacrifices. Yuck!

3 posted on 10/01/2024 8:26:08 AM PDT by mairdie (Trump (I Will Win) - Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma https://youtu.be/MigUKGKr-nQ)

To: mairdie

All cultures are equal....

4 posted on 10/01/2024 8:26:32 AM PDT by PGR88

To: SunkenCiv

Harems?..................

5 posted on 10/01/2024 8:32:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)

To: SunkenCiv

[[Why Are So Many Women Buried in This 5600-Year-Old Necropolis?]]

Just a wild guess, but, Because they died?

6 posted on 10/01/2024 8:32:55 AM PDT by Bob434

To: SunkenCiv

The time between 6000 BC and 5000 BC is a mysterious time.

The Bible records 6000 BC as about the time of Adam and Eve.

5000 BC is about the time of Noah and the flood.

In between, the biblical record shows that the gene pool got corrupted and worldwide wickedness was rampant with no remedy other than complete annihilation.

FYI, the Bible also says the ends times in which we are living will be like the days of Noah.

7 posted on 10/01/2024 8:33:00 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)

To: SunkenCiv

Volcano prevention rituals?

8 posted on 10/01/2024 8:33:45 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (What is the cost of lies?)

To: SunkenCiv

Wait, there’s no non-binaries in there?

9 posted on 10/01/2024 8:34:00 AM PDT by struggle

To: SunkenCiv

Because the ladies were too lively for the animapolis.

10 posted on 10/01/2024 8:35:16 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)

To: SunkenCiv

The men were perhaps involved in a losing conflict and died or taken into slavery elsewhere?

11 posted on 10/01/2024 8:36:15 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)

To: SunkenCiv

Decendants of Donald Trump running the place, obviously failed to value women’s health issues at the time.

12 posted on 10/01/2024 8:36:23 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Read Entire Article