Human Sacrifices Surround Ancient Mesopotamian Tomb

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About 5,000 years ago, the Mesopotamians buried two 12-year-olds — a boy and a girl — and surrounded their slender bodies with hundreds of bronze spearheads and what appears to be eight human sacrifices, a new study finds.
The eight human sacrifices were positioned just outside the tomb, located at the site of Basur Höyük in southeastern Turkey, the researchers said. The team determined the age of six of the human sacrifices and found that the victims ranged in age from 11 to 20 years old.
These two 12-year-olds, along with the eight human sacrifices, "had been deposited in a single event, and furnished with an unprecedented number of high-status grave goods for the period and the region," the researchers wrote in a study published online yesterday (June 28) in the journal Antiquity.
The mysterious tomb was discovered in 2014, said the study's two researchers, Brenna Hassett, a post-doctoral researcher of archaeology at the Natural History Museum in London; and Haluk Sağlamtimur, an archaeology professor at Ege University in Izmir, Turkey. [25 Cultures That Practiced Human Sacrifice]
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Well, lots of human bones to test and see if "steppe" ancestry made it into this part of Turkey in the Bronze Age.

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Meospotamia is little explored when it comes to Ancient DNA. Between the cemetary at Ur and other sites that have been surveyed in Sumeria or not, there should be plenty of material to test. The lack of interest in the the likes of David Reich towards studying the region's core is disappointing.
 
Alyan said:
Meospotamia is little explored when it comes to Ancient DNA. Between the cemetary at Ur and other sites that have been surveyed in Sumeria or not, there shouod be plenty of material to test. The lack of interest in the the likes of David Reich towards studying the region's core is disappointing.
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Who says it's lack of interest?

It's my understanding that the climate is responsible. It's just much easier to get useable dna from colder areas. Look at all the samples they tested in India, and in some places they got one result.

It isn't as easy as you seem to think.
 
Considering we have DNA from Paleolithic North Africa to Neolithic and technology marched on, it's not like we're still in the days of Hawass. I find it hard to believe that of the hundreds of remains collected and spread around the world, none of it is usable.
 
Angela said:
Well, lots of human bones to test and see if "steppe" ancestry made it into this part of Turkey in the Bronze Age.
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3000 BC and in the most South-Eastern part of Turkey. You will not find steppe. It *is* highly interesting what would come out though, to see when the "Great Mixing" as suggested by Lazaridis farmer paper took place.
 
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