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So why does it
not feel that way?
Historians study past violence through paper and ink, but anthropologists study violence through the very marrow of its victims.
And bones rarely lie.
The bones of truth in this tale are 15 skeletons found in the 5000-year-old mass grave at Koszyce, southern Poland. Each was killed by a blow to the top of the head, most likely with a stone axe.
Researchers suspect they were killed execution-style because the skeletons lacked parry fractures — defense injuries sustained to the upper limbs and forearms. When someone sees a fist or weapon coming at them, their natural inclination is to hold up their arms to protect their face. Therefore, the absence of parry fractures usually indicates the victim was not killed in a fight.
More revealing, anthropologists discovered through genome sequencing that many of the victims were related. These genetic relations explain why bodies were placed next to their closest kin — mothers cradling children, cousins side by side, and siblings in death’s last embrace.
Disturbingly, only one male adult was found in the grave. Anthropologists are left to conclude the unthinkable — women and children were massacred while the men were away. Typically, women were valued as war bounties in most prehistoric power struggles over resources. But these women were executed instead of enslaved.
Was this Bronze Age murder a revenge killing? We will never know. But one thing is certain. The Koszyce mass grave is not the only imprint of human savagery.
Arguably, one of the most famous examples of the human propensity for violence is the Talheim Death Pits. This 7000-year-old mass grave holds 26 adults and children, most of which contain skeletons with mutilated skulls and broken legs — signs of torture before their deaths.
These death pits are found all over the world. Their contents are a grisly testament to the senseless violence humans are capable of and disabuse the glorification.
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