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systematic killing of newborn babies and are investigating the theory that the victims were unwanted babies born to workers at a Roman-era brothel.
My main concern with the brothel theory is that it's just too far away from any major population centres. I'm just not convinced,"
"There are a few significant religious objects from the site that indicate possible connections with a mother goddess cult," he explained. "They may indicate that the site was a shrine and women went there to give birth, and get protection from the mother goddess during this dangerous time. The large number of babies who are buried there could be natural stillbirths, or children who died in labour."
Cut marks can indicate anything from ritual practices involving human sacrifice, the de-fleshing of bones before burial, or the dismembering of a baby during childbirth to save the life of the mother.
It is common throughout history in cases of infanticide for girls to be killed rather than boys, but the opposite holds true for brothel sites. A brothel site at Ashkelon in Israel revealed that nearly all of the babies were boys. Although the tests represented a very small sample of the total number of baby skeletons found, there seemed to be an equal number of victims of both sexes at the Buckinghamshire site, and so the mystery for now remains unsolved.
I just shudder to think what women went through before the advent of the epidural!
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by Versa
I just shudder to think what women went through before the advent of the epidural!
They went through life, life hurts sometimes.
Boncho -Two separate leg fractures, both times without pain medication for 48 hours.
A very interesting case however. I wonder what the personal feelings were of people who lost their children during pregnancy back then. Or, what type of anxiety Mothers had before birth.
Originally posted by GhettoRice
This story kind of makes me wonder what other sites history claims to be sacrificial sites or bizarre murder scenes are possibly like what the article says or even early medical areas.
Thousand year old c-section ...........damn
Originally posted by Aeons
If it was a birthing center, I would expect to find women's remains as well. Many women die in childbirth.
Originally posted by RRokkyy
reply to post by Versa
From what I have read 1/3 of all Roman births were infanticided.
And 1/3 of all Romans were slaves.
That was life back then.