Mass grave reveals prehistoric warfare in ancient European farming community
by Emily Mobley from on (#HNF4)
Shattered skulls and shin bones of 7000-year-old skeletons may point to torture and mutilation not previously observed in early Neolithic Linear Pottery culture
The chance discovery of a mass grave crammed with the battered skeletons of ancient Europeans has shed light on the lethal violence that tore through one of the continent's earliest farming communities.
In 2006, archaeologists were called in after road builders in Germany uncovered a narrow ditch filled with human bones as they worked at a site in Schineck-Kilianstidten, 20km north-east of Frankfurt.
