{"id":17311,"date":"2013-07-28T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T15:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=17311"},"modified":"2013-07-28T10:54:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T15:54:55","slug":"al-kadada-evidence-for-5500-year-old-human-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/28\/al-kadada-evidence-for-5500-year-old-human-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Kadada evidence for 5,500 year old human sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a site in the vicinity of Meroe in the Sudan, and seem to date to a period of transition between foraging and farming.  From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/sudan\/4517916\/Africas-oldest-human-sacrifice-found-in-Sudan.html\">The Telegraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a graveyard in Al-Kadada, north of Khartoum, the archaeologists have dug up the tomb of a man and a woman facing each other in a ditch, with bodies of two women, two goats and a dog buried nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of the group &#8220;confirms&#8221; excavations last year which found traces of the oldest human sacrifice ever identified in Africa, Jacques Reinold, a researcher for the French section of the Sudanese antiquities department, said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"dit-video-embed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/snagplayer.video.dp.discovery.com\/484307\/snag-it-player.htm?auto=no\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What do you think about the interpretations being offered? Do you think that the earliest archaeological evidence of &#8220;human sacrifice&#8221; is likely to be one of the first instances of such behavior? What are the alternative interpretations of this find?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Photo is of rock art from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tadrart_Acacus\">Tadrart Acacus <\/a>in Ghat District of western Libya, in the Sahara, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, dating to between about 12,000 and 1,900 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a site in the vicinity of Meroe in the Sudan, and seem to date to a period of transition between foraging and farming. From The Telegraph: In a graveyard in Al-Kadada, north of Khartoum, the archaeologists have dug up the tomb of a man and a woman facing each other in a ditch, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/28\/al-kadada-evidence-for-5500-year-old-human-sacrifice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Al-Kadada evidence for 5,500 year old human sacrifice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[112,1165],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4vd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}