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Bronze Age mass grave reveals grisly massacre in which victims were likely eaten
Today, the limestone plateau in the United Kingdom’s Mendip Hills is famed for its natural beauty. But around 4,000 years ago in the Early Bronze Age, a grisly chapter of British prehistory unfolded ...
A Grisly Discovery at a Bronze Age Mass Grave: The Victims Were Eaten, Too
It’s taken us all aback,” said a professor who led a study revealing that 37 people in a prehistoric site in England were likely consumed by their attackers.
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Bronze age Britons were 'cannibals who ate their enemies' for a chilling reason
Bronze Age Britons were cannibals who butchered and ate their enemies, new research shows. Analysis of bones found at an archeological site in Somerset suggests that at least 37 people were killed and ...
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Dozens of Britons were "killed and butchered" and then cannibalized after Bronze Age massacre, research shows
New research suggests that dozens of Bronze-Age era Britons were killed in an attack unlike any previous known to archaelogists studying that time period and location. The research on human ...
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Grisly remains point to a bleak, ancient chapter in British history
Thousands of ancient butchered human bones found in a deep shaft in southwest England have pointed archaeologists to a grim chapter of British prehistory that occurred during the Early Bronze Age.
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Prehistoric Marbles, Whistles, and Other Vestiges of Childhood Games from Bronze Age, Discovered in the Carpathian Basin
A group of researchers from the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb has revealed fascinating evidence about how children ...
Stunning Gold Ring From Roman Era Found on Ancient French Road
The gold ring (shown above) was found on that road, and dates to roughly the same time period. The ring is a Roman nicolo, ...
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Bronze Age Minoan Ingots Are Evidence of Ancient Trade Links
Bronze Age Minoan ingots with unique markings that were recently discovered show vast trading links between Cyprus and ...
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Bronze Age Cannibalism 'Shines a Light on a Dark Side of Human Behavior'
For a study published in the journal Antiquity, researchers analyzed more than 3,000 bones and bone fragments attributed to dozens of individuals from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse ...
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Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised
It is the largest case of violence between humans identified in early Bronze Age England, which had been considered a peaceful time. The victims' bones were found by cavers in the 1970s.
Ancient genomes provide final word in Indo-European linguistic origins
A team of 91 researchers—including famed geneticist Eske Willerslev at the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University ...
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Bronze Age mass grave reveals grisly massacre in which victims were likely eaten
But around 4,000 years ago in the Early Bronze Age, a grisly chapter of British prehistory unfolded there. Thousands of human bones excavated in the 1970s and 1980s in a shaft that plunges about ...