War before civilization in Late Neolithic Europe
A new ancient DNA paper, Unraveling ancestry, kinship, and violence in a Late Neolithic mass grave: We sequenced the genomes of 15 skeletons from a 5,000-y-old mass grave in Poland associated with the Globular Amphora culture. All individuals had been brutally killed by blows to the head, but buried with great care. Genome-wide analyses demonstrate […]