Sentences with phrase «war bands»

Those myths link dogs and wolves to youthful male war bands, warfare and death.

4000 years ago in Eurasia, young warriors killed large numbers of dogs, ate their flesh, and chopped their skulls into small pieces as part of a bizarre initiation into war bands

SLICE RITES Nearly 4,000 years ago, at a site in what's now Russia, teenage boys ate dogs or wolves to join war bands, a contested report says.

Select boys of the Srubnaya, or Timber Grave, culture joined youth war bands in winter rites, where they symbolically became dogs and wolves by consuming canine flesh, contend David Anthony and Dorcas Brown, both of Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y..

As University of Aarhus's Vandkilde puts it: «It's an army like the one described in Homeric epics, made up of smaller war bands that gathered to sack Troy» — an event thought to have happened fewer than 100 years later, in 1184 B.C.E..

The controversial finds, which date to between roughly 3,900 and 3,700 years ago, may provide the first archaeological evidence of adolescent male war bands described in ancient texts.

Traffic jams are like rival war bands.

The survivors of the 4th World War band together to rebuild their own cities while bandits, murderers and thugs roam the wasteland to find their next victims - Goodman Town is the crown jewel of this apocalyptic wasteland...

To just repeat that figure, that's seven years spent undercover in the Mages» Guilds and goblin war bands, building up to a pretty shocking find; there is nothing there!

This brand new expansion features a whole host of new content including new missions with unique challenges, new Outlaw War Bands and a new legendary gear set.

These men would have directed initiation ceremonies into war bands, Anthony says.

But no other archaeological sites have yielded evidence for teenage male war bands or canine - consuming initiation rites, raising doubts about Anthony and Brown's proposed scenario, he argues.

McIntosh thinks those warring bands may create more complicated sunspots, called deltas, which appear as a mottled mess of light and dark representing different magnetic poles.

Dog and wolf deposits at the Russian site align with myths connecting these animals to war bands and initiation rites, not healing, Anthony responds.

A rival, warring band of ape competitors approaches the watering hole, led by an almost - upright, tall and bright man - ape [named Moonwatcher in Arthur Clarke's novel](Daniel Richter).

4000 years ago in Eurasia, young warriors killed large numbers of dogs, ate their flesh, and chopped their skulls into small pieces as part of a bizarre initiation into war bands