Abstract
The Cultural Warfare goes back many millennia and strives to weaken an enemy and to make a subject docile. Assimilation derails the future of a culture by diverting the population in the future to other practices. The Chronocide, a rather modern concept as a term, attacks the Past, so that the manipulation within the Future of an orphaned population is much easier and without any potential for recurrence. A new iteration seems to emerge, using multi-domain scientific methods to perform such tasks and abusing the notion of evidence-based research: biomedical technology for analyzing human remains requires the fusion of scholarship and experimentation. The combination of Isotopic Analysis/Bioarchaeology and Archaeogenomics was used to a small sample of human remains from a grave site near the ancient battle site of Himera to track the lineage of deceased individuals. The suggested high percentage of alien adult males to natives for burials of 480 BC opposed to natives-only burials of 409 BC, led researchers to revise Ancient Greek military practices of the 5th century BC. Foreign mercenaries, many from East Europe, are supposed to have played prominent, hitherto shushed, role, within the ancient Greek world. The discrepancy of this theory with the own findings, which do not prove or suggest such association, would suggest that a flawed interpretation was expanded first to a fact and then to a paradigm, to promote politicized agendas. Whether this constitutes Chronocide or not is debatable.
Keywords:
Archaeogenomics, Archaeological Science, Biomolecular Archaeology, Chronocide, Evidence-Based Research, Historical Revisionism, Isotopic AnalysisReferences
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