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A pit full of 6,200-year-old skeletons is now the oldest known example of indiscriminate, mass killing
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About 6,200 years ago in what is now Croatia, 41 people were murdered and their remains were put into a mass grave. There have been many questions regarding the massacre and now new DNA analysis has deepened the mystery.
Back in 2007, a man living in a small village in the hills of Potočani, Croatia, began digging in the ground to build a garage and that’s when he unearthed the grave holding the remains of the 41 victims. The pit was just 2 meters in diameter (6.6 feet) and one meter in depth (3.3 feet).
Archaeologists from the University of Zagreb took a look at the mass grave and at first they thought they were the remains of soldiers from World War II or the Croatian War of Independence. However, after DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating of the bones, they determined that the victims were from a much earlier time period – around 4200 BC.
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IMAGE: he Potočani mass burial, with the upper layers of the pit showing numerous commingled skeletons. view more
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
Ancient death pit found where villagers killed their own in random massacre
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