An adult skull from the Charterhouse Warren mass grave in England. Cut marks and blunt fractures are characteristic.
Ian R. Carwright/University of Oxford Institute of Archeology
About 4,000 years ago, at least 37 men, women and children were brutally slaughtered, dismembered and probably eaten by enemies, before their bodies were thrown into a 15-meter-deep cave along with cow bones.
This is the largest and most extreme episode of mass violence known in prehistoric Britain. Archaeologists behind the discovery believe that the perpetrators carried out this act to dehumanize, or “other,” their victims, perhaps as revenge to send a political message. There is. …
Source: www.newscientist.com
