7,000-Year-Old Massacre: 9 Neolithic Outsiders Murdered with Blows to the Head
By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer | July 9, 2018 07:30am ET
About 7,000 years ago, the bodies of nine brutally murdered people were dumped into a mass grave on the edge of an ancient farming settlement. While their identities will never be known, one thing is certain: These nine individuals were interlopers — possibly failed raiders or POWs — who met violent ends, a new study finds.
These people aren't the only early Neolithic victims whose lives ended in violence. But several factors set this newfound burial — found during a construction project in Halberstadt, Germany, in 2013 — apart from other mass graves dating to the same period, the researchers said.
https://www.livescience.com/63009-neolithic-mass-grave-violence.html
