Mysterious brutal customs of the Stone Age

The detection of a skull with a broken face shows the obsession with zombies that existed since ancient times.

The zombie catastrophe is a mere fantasy of Hollywood filmmakers. In fact, the fear of walking corpses is deeply rooted in the Stone Age. Archaeologists who have carried out projects in Europe and the Middle East have unearthed evidence to show that the mysterious behavior "smashed the face of the dead" , according to New Scientist. Ancient in Syria was cut off from the body, and the facial bone was broken, more horrific, experts said that the skeletons were excavated and cut the skull after a few years from the time of burial. smashing the face, the ancient people dig up the earth to bury the skull and body separately.

Area of ​​bones and excavations - (Photo: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas)

According to expert Juan José Ibañez of Spain's National Research Council in Barcelona, ​​the findings suggest that executives who "smash their faces" in the Stone Age believe they are threatened by the dead. Perhaps they thought that the only way to protect themselves was to destroy the face of the remains, cut off the head and bury the two parts. The reason behind this cruel custom has yet to be determined. Must there be a sign of death in a person that makes people feel insecure? The frightening thing is that many skull bones dating to about 10,000 years old have been separated from their bodies for years after burial. And the whole brutally processed skull belongs to men between the ages of 18 and 30. The ancients did not use gentle methods to 'pay' the dead. They kept taking a stone weapon and hitting it in the face, according to a report in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Experts feel very surprised to discover a completely new aspect in ancient times. Did 10,000 years ago the Syrian ancestors saved humanity from genocide for zombies? However, Mr. Ibañez explained that it is possible that Stone Age people believe such blasphemous acts will help them absorb their full power, or simply to vent anger or revenge. And expert Liv Nilsson Stutz of Emory University in Atlanta thought up another hypothesis that is equally interesting: 'Stripping off a face can be an act to break the dead with the living.'