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France Unearths Bones from 6,000-Year-Old MassacreExcerpt:QuoteThe corpses of 10 people were found outside Strasbourg in one of 300 ancient "silos" used to store grain and other food, a team from France's National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) told reporters.The Neolithic group appeared to have died violent deaths, with multiple injuries to their legs, hands and skulls.The way in which the bodies were piled on top of each other suggested they had been killed together and dumped in the silo."They were very brutally executed and received violent blows, almost certainly from a stone axe," said Philippe Lefranc, an Inrap specialist on the period.The skeletons of five adults and one adolescent were found, as well as four arms from different individuals.http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/211068-france-unearths-bones-from-6-000-year-old-massacre
The corpses of 10 people were found outside Strasbourg in one of 300 ancient "silos" used to store grain and other food, a team from France's National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) told reporters.The Neolithic group appeared to have died violent deaths, with multiple injuries to their legs, hands and skulls.The way in which the bodies were piled on top of each other suggested they had been killed together and dumped in the silo."They were very brutally executed and received violent blows, almost certainly from a stone axe," said Philippe Lefranc, an Inrap specialist on the period.The skeletons of five adults and one adolescent were found, as well as four arms from different individuals.