Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Early Neolithic executions indicated by clustered cranial trauma in the mass grave of Halberstadt

  • Christian Meyer,
  • Corina Knipper,
  • Nicole Nicklisch,
  • Angelina Münster,
  • Olaf Kürbis,
  • Veit Dresely,
  • Harald Meller,
  • Kurt W. Alt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04773-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Prehistoric warfare and massacres of Linearbandkeramik (LBK) communities are evidenced by mass graves from the Early Neolithic of Central Europe. Here, Meyer et al. describe a newly discovered mass grave from Germany revealing the execution of a predominantly adult male group of non-local individuals.