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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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A group of researchers found on an archaeological site the remains of 41 people who were murdered in the current region of Potočani, Croatia. You bones they are vestiges of a massacre that occurred 6,2 years ago, the oldest recorded. The site had been discovered in 2007, but it was not until 2012 that it was analyzed and, in the last week, the findings were published by the magazine Plos One.
Archaeologists find remains of the massacre in Croatia. Image: Jacqueline Balen / Archaeological Museum of Zagreb
Unlike other findings of massacres, such as those directed at specific families within the battlefield or in religious rituals, the remains found reveal a scenario in which the crime was carried out in a disorderly manner, that is, without organization.
Oldest documented site of indiscriminate mass killing found in Croatia
In previous research, ancient massacre sites found men who died while pitted in battle or discovered executions of targeted families. At other sites, evidence showed killing of members of a migrant community in conflict with previously established communities, and even murders of those who were part of religious rituals.
But a more recent discovery by a research team that includes two University of Wyoming faculty members reveals the oldest documented site of an indiscriminate mass killing 6,200 years ago in what is now Potočani, Croatia.
“The DNA, combined with the archaeological and skeletal evidence especially that indicating systematic violence, perhaps even execution-style demonstrates an indiscriminate massacre and haphazard burial of 41 individuals from an early pastoralist community in what is now eastern Croatia,” says James Ahern, a UW professor in the Department of Anthropology and ass
6,200-Year-Old Massacre Shows Humans Have Sucked a Long Time
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In previous research, ancient massacre sites found men who died while pitted in battle or discovered executions of targeted families.
At other sites, evidence showed killing of members of a migrant community in conflict with previously established communities, and even murders of those who were part of religious rituals.
But a more recent discovery by a research team that includes two University of Wyoming faculty members reveals the oldest documented site of an indiscriminate mass killing 6,200 years ago in what is now Potocani, Croatia.
“The DNA, combined with the archaeological and skeletal evidence especially that indicating systematic violence, perhaps even execution-style demonstrates an indiscriminate massacre and haphazard burial of 41 individuals from an early pastoralist community in what is now eastern Croatia,” says James Ahern, a UW professor in the Department of Anthropology and associate vice provost for graduate education.
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