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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DD'eDeN: [QB] Central Europe Violence 7ka lower limbs, torture(post-deluge 7.7ka) The massacre mass grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten reveals new insights into collective violence in Early Neolithic Central Europe Christian Meyer cs 2015 PNAS doi 10.1073/pnas.1504365112 The Early Neolithic massacre-related mass grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten presented here provides new data & insights for the discussions of prehistoric warfare in C-Europe. Although several characteristics gleaned from the analysis of the human skeletal remains support & strengthen previous hypotheses based on the few known massacre sites of this time, a pattern of intentional mutilation of violence victims identified here is of special significance. Adding another key site to the evidence for Early Neolithic warfare generally allows more robust & reliable reconstructions of the possible reasons for the extent & frequency of outbreaks of lethal mass violence, and the general impact these events had on shaping the further development of the C-European Neolithic. Conflict & warfare are central, but also disputed themes in discussions about the European Neolithic. Although a few recent population studies provide broad overviews, only a very limited number of currently known key sites provide precise insights into moments of extreme & mass violence & their impact on Neolithic societies. The massacre sites of Talheim (Germany) & Asparn/Schletz (Austria) have long been the focal points around which hypotheses concerning a final lethal crisis of the first C-European farmers of the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik Culture (LBK) have concentrated. With the recently examined LBK mass grave site of Schöneck-Kilianstädten, we present new conclusive & indisputable evidence for another massacre, adding new data to the discussion of LBK violence patterns. At least 26 individuals were violently killed by blunt force & arrow injuries, before being deposited in a commingled mass grave. Although the absence & possible abduction of younger females has been suggested for other sites previously, a new violence-related pattern was identified here: the intentional & systematic breaking of lower limbs. The abundance of the identified peri-mortem fractures clearly indicates torture or mutilation of the victims. This new evidence for unequivocal lethal violence on a large scale is put into perspective for the Early Neolithic of C-Europe. In conjunction with previous results, it indicates that massacres of entire communities were not isolated occurrences, but rather were frequent features of the last phases of the LBK. _____ Evidence of massacre found in Neolithic Germany 18.8.15 Violent conflicts in Neolithic Europe were held more brutally than has been known so far. A recent anthropological analysis of the 7-ka mass grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten (PNAS) shows that victims were murdered & deliberately mutilated. It was during the time when Europeans first began to farm. To what degree conflicts & wars featured in the early Neolithic (5600-4900 BC), esp.in the Linear Pottery culture (Linearbandkeramik LBK) is a disputed theme. Were social tensions responsible for the termination of this era? So far, 2 mass graves from this period were known to stem from armed conflicts: - Talheim Germany, - Asparn/Schletz Austria. Researchers now report new findings after analyzing the human remains of the mass grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten, a massacre site discovered in 2006: the prehistoric attackers used unprecedented violence against their victims. The team examined & analyzed the bones and skeletons of at least 26, mainly male, adults & children: most exhibited severe injuries. Torture & mutilation Besides various types of (bone) injuries caused by arrows, they also found many cases of massive damage to the head, face & teeth, some inflicted on the victims shorty before or after their death. The attackers systematically broke their victims' legs, pointing to torture & deliberate mutilation. Only few female remains were found: women were not actively involved in the fighting, and were possibly abducted by the attackers. The authors presume that such massacres were not isolated occurrences, but represented frequent features of the early Central European Neolithic. The Neolithic massacre sites examined so far are all located in some distance to each other, this further underlines this conclusion. The goal of this massive & systematic violence may have been the annihilation of entire communities. http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.be/2015/08/ [/QB][/QUOTE]
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