2,500-year-old skeletons with legs chopped off may be elites who received 'cruel' punishment in ancient China (www.livescience.com)
from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to archaeology@mander.xyz on 22 Apr 2024 04:19
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maculata@aussie.zone on 22 Apr 2024 04:28 next collapse

Maybe they just into that sort of thing.

hperrin@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 2024 07:27 next collapse

Is that better or worse than heads chopped off?

Minarble@aussie.zone on 23 Apr 2024 01:03 collapse

Depends which order they do it in.

FMT99@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 2024 08:02 next collapse

But she suggested an alternative reason for the missing portions of the skeletons’ legs. “Amputation due to trauma is a simpler explanation,” she said.

It’s likely that the amputation was performed to manage an infected fracture or an injury

Well…

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 22 Apr 2024 11:22 collapse

The amputations were almost identical and the article mentions previous similar finds. There’s documented use of yue for over 1000 years before and 500 years after the finding in ancient penal codes. In this case, it looks like both explanations are equally plausible.