An adult skull from the Charterhouse Warren mass grave in England. Characteristic cut marks and blunt fractures
Ian R. Carwright/University of Oxford Institute of Archeology
Some 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 the bones of cows.
This is the largest and most extreme episode of mass violence known in prehistoric Britain. The archaeologists behind the discovery believe that the perpetrators carried out this act as revenge, perhaps to send a political message, with the aim of dehumanizing or ‘othering’ their victims. . …
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