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Originally Posted by Vasconcelos
Interesting article.
I thought this had already been established, though? It has long been believed that the Lusitanians sacrificed the body parts of prisoners, such as a hand to the god of war, Cariocecus.
But also, the Lusitanians believed that by stabbing prisoners in the stomach and observing how they fell, they could make predictions about warfare. I had read not too long ago, although it may not have been intentional, that it is believed that many of these prisoners eventually died from their wounds or of infection.
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European prehistoric sacrifices are an old-establshed fact as you said; just remember the Ofnet messolithic head burials; or in more recent times during late bronze or iron age widow been sacrified and buried with husband after the husband's dead (this practrice usually associated to bearers of IE culture)