Massacres, torture and mutilation: Extreme violence in neolithic conflicts
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 - 09:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Violent conflicts in Neolithic Europe were held more brutally than has been known so far. This emerges from a recent anthropological analysis of the roughly 7000-year-old mass grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten. The findings show that victims were murdered and deliberately mutilated.