An grownup cranium from the Charterhouse Warren mass grave within the UK, that includes minimize marks and a blunt drive fracture
Ian R. Carwright/Institute of Archaeology Oxford College
Round 4000 years in the past, a minimum of 37 males, girl and kids had been brutally butchered, dismembered and probably eaten by their enemies earlier than their stays had been tossed right into a 15-metre-deep cave shaft with cattle bones.
It’s the largest and most excessive episode of mass violence recognized from prehistoric Britain. The archaeologists behind the invention suppose the perpetrators did it to dehumanise, or “other”, the victims, probably as revenge to ship a political message.…
