An adult skull with cut marks and a sharp force fracture from the Charterhouse Warren mass grave in the UK
Ian R. Carwright/Institute of Archeology University of Oxford
Around 4,000 years ago, at least 37 men, women and children were brutally butchered, dismembered and possibly eaten by their enemies before their remains were dumped in a 15m deep cave containing cow bones.
It is the largest and most extreme episode of mass violence known in prehistoric Britain. Archaeologists behind the discovery believe the perpetrators may have dehumanized or ‘othered’ the victims, perhaps as revenge to send a political message…
