HEADLESS ROMANS

MYSTERY OF HEADLESS ROMANS :-

           In between 2004 and 2005 in the northern city of York, the 80 skeletons were found buried in a burial ground which were used by the Romans throughout the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. Most of them were males, and more than half of them had been decapitated, although many were buried with their detached heads.
York at that time period referred as Eboracum—was the Roman Empire's northernmost provincial capital during the time.
 Gundula Müldner of the University of Reading in the U.K. says that the "headless Romans" probably  came from Eastern Europe, and evidence of combat scars in the skeletal remains also suggest that the men led violent lives. According to Müldner , The headless Romans had  different physic than the other native peoples of York. They came from all over the places, while some of them were quite exotic.
Headless Romans Had Foreign Diets
Müldner's team analyzed the bones . Based on the geology and climate of where a person grew up, their bones hold telltale traces of isotopes absorbed from the local food and water.
Oxygen and strontium isotopes in the bones of the headless Romans indicate that only 5 out of 18 individuals tested came from the York area, later it was  published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. While the rest of the men came from elsewhere in England or mainland Europe, possibly from France, Germany, the Balkans, or the Mediterranean.
Traces of carbon and nitrogen show that five of the headless Romans ate very different foods from York's local population. And two individuals had carbon  from a group of food plants like sorghum, sugarcane, and maize , which were not known to have been cultivated in England at that time. Millet was the only food plant from this group that was being grown in mainland Europe at that period of time.
 According to Müldner's team, the headless millet-eaters migrated from colder climates, perhaps parts of Eastern Europe that were beyond the borders of the Roman Empire.
As for what the men were doing in York, previous theories had suggested theheadless Romans were soldiers, imported gladiators, executed citizens, or ritually killed victims of a religious cult.
Other recent research suggested the headless Romans were gladiators brought to the distant capital for entertainment.