git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 29 days agoArchaeologists find 2,500-year-old mass grave of infants in Israelwww.haaretz.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down11
arrow-up160arrow-down1external-linkArchaeologists find 2,500-year-old mass grave of infants in Israelwww.haaretz.comgit [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square11linkfedilink
minus-squareEvilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·29 days agoDefiantly not child sacrifice.
minus-squareLe_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·29 days agoinfant (and maternal) mortality was pretty high until very recently. Some places you had to survive a few years to get a name
minus-squareEvilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·29 days ago Some places you had to survive a few years to get a name
minus-squarestink@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·29 days agoChina and Eastern Europe are what I’m aware of off the top of my head. You give your kid a nickname until they pass a certain age.
minus-squareAthena5898 [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·29 days agoI don’t know how accurate this is but I believe this was a practice in some places in the middle east as well. Modern medicine is amazing honestly. Babies of all animals are at their most fragile state that random spontaneous death is a common issue.
Defiantly not child sacrifice.
infant (and maternal) mortality was pretty high until very recently. Some places you had to survive a few years to get a name
China and Eastern Europe are what I’m aware of off the top of my head. You give your kid a nickname until they pass a certain age.
I don’t know how accurate this is but I believe this was a practice in some places in the middle east as well.
Modern medicine is amazing honestly. Babies of all animals are at their most fragile state that random spontaneous death is a common issue.