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Credit: Novak et al, 2021, PLOS ONE (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Genetic analysis provides clarity and also prompts further questions around an ancient massacre in Potočani, Croatia, in a study published March 10, 2021 in the open-access journal
PLOS ONE by Mario Novak from the Institute for Anthropological Research, Croatia, Ron Pinhasi from the University of Vienna, Austria, David Reich from Harvard Medical School and Harvard University, USA, and colleagues.
To date anthropological and genomic analysis of early massacres has revealed cases where the victims were plausibly killed due to battle, in-versus-out-group conflicts (such as targeting of specific families or recent migrants), or religious ritual. The massacre of 41 individuals in Potočani, Croatia, 6,200 years ago described in this study, one of the
The remains of a 6,200-year-old massacre in what is now Croatia tell a story of indiscriminate killing.
The Potočani mass burial, with the upper layers of the pit showing numerous commingled skeletons. (Novak et al, 2021, PLOS ONE [CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/])
(CN) More than 6,000 years ago, 41 men and women were massacred in what is now Potočani, Croatia, with the victims ranging from as young as 2 years old to as old as 35. Although still researchers don’t understand why these people were murdered, research published in the journal PLOS ONE on Wednesday reveals new information about them.