The aftermath of an “exceptionally violent” attack in early Bronze Age England reveals a case of cannibalism, according to a new study.
“The most surprising thing is the sheer extent of the violence carried out on the bodies," the study's lead author told NBC NewsOver 3,000 bones were excavated from a 50-foot pit in Charterhouse Warren, around 20 miles south of the city of
Schulting, a professor of scientific and prehistoric archaeology at Britain's University of Oxford, said that the archeology at the site is “exceptional.” Schulting said that determining the motive behind such as an attack is “one of the hardest things to do in archaeology.” But together with his fellow authors, he concluded in the study that the massacre was likely driven by a furious “spiraling cycle of revenge” within or between Early Bronze Age communities.
The victims might have been eaten to “dehumanize” them and “treat them like animals,” Schulting said, emphasizing that this was not the action of just a few individuals. “The number of victims and the time it would have taken to dismember the victims tells us that there must have been a large number of aggressors involved.”
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