The darker angels of our nature: a butchered Early Bronze Age human bone assemblage from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK
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2024-12-31
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2025-05-24
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Cambridge University Press
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0003-598X
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Schulting RJ, Fernández-Crespo T, Ordoño J, et al., (2024) The darker angels of our nature: a butchered Early Bronze Age human bone assemblage from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK. Antiquity, accepted for publication 24 May 2024.
Abstract
An Early Bronze Age assemblage of human remains from Charterhouse Warren, southwest England, exhibits evidence of extreme violence. At least 37 men, women and children were killed and butchered and their disarticulated remains were thrown down a 15m deep natural shaft in what is most plausibly interpreted as a single event. This level and scale of violence to the living as well as to the dead is unprecedented in British prehistory.
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Archaeology, 4301 Archaeology
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This work was supported by a British Academy grant (SG163375). The radiocarbon dates were funded by NERC’s NEIF programme (NF/2018/1/3).
Isotope analyses were partially funded by a British Academy Newton International Fellowship to T.F-C (NF17085).
Isotope analyses were partially funded by a British Academy Newton International Fellowship to T.F-C (NF17085).