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http://www.pnas.org/content/112/36/11217.abstract
The Early Neolithic massacre-related mass grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten presented here provides new data and insights for the ongoing discussions of prehistoric warfare in Central Europe. Although several characteristics gleaned from the analysis of the human skeletal remains support and 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 and reliable reconstructions of the possible reasons for the extent and frequency of outbreaks of lethal mass violence and the general impact these events had on shaping the further development of the Central European Neolithic.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/europes-first-farmers-were-shockingly-violent-1724792763?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=io9_twitter
Indeed, this isn’t the first time that archaeologists have found something like this. In the 1980s, two similar Neolithic mass graves containing more than 100 bodies were uncovered in Germany and Austria. The new discovery strongly suggests that these clashes were not isolated or infrequent; during the Early Neolithic, it appears that farming communities went to war against rival farming communities.
So far the myth of violent HG and peacefull farmers.
If I understand correct all sites mentioned here were late LBK sites.
It does not mean all neolithic cultures were as violent as this.
But where there was overpopulation , I think not much was needed to spark war and violence.
War and violence in prehistory have been grocely understimated uptill now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Before_Civilization
The Early Neolithic massacre-related mass grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten presented here provides new data and insights for the ongoing discussions of prehistoric warfare in Central Europe. Although several characteristics gleaned from the analysis of the human skeletal remains support and 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 and reliable reconstructions of the possible reasons for the extent and frequency of outbreaks of lethal mass violence and the general impact these events had on shaping the further development of the Central European Neolithic.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/europes-first-farmers-were-shockingly-violent-1724792763?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=io9_twitter
Indeed, this isn’t the first time that archaeologists have found something like this. In the 1980s, two similar Neolithic mass graves containing more than 100 bodies were uncovered in Germany and Austria. The new discovery strongly suggests that these clashes were not isolated or infrequent; during the Early Neolithic, it appears that farming communities went to war against rival farming communities.
So far the myth of violent HG and peacefull farmers.
If I understand correct all sites mentioned here were late LBK sites.
It does not mean all neolithic cultures were as violent as this.
But where there was overpopulation , I think not much was needed to spark war and violence.
War and violence in prehistory have been grocely understimated uptill now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Before_Civilization