The darker angels of our nature: a butchered Early Bronze Age human bone assemblage from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK

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dc.contributor.authorSchulting, Rick J.
dc.contributor.authorFernández-Crespo, Teresa
dc.contributor.authorOrdoño, Javier
dc.contributor.authorBrock, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorKellow, Ashleigh
dc.contributor.authorSnoeck, Christophe
dc.contributor.authorCartwright, Ian R.
dc.contributor.authorWalker, David
dc.contributor.authorLoe, Louise
dc.contributor.authorAudsley, Tony
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-23T14:31:05Z
dc.date.available2024-09-23T14:31:05Z
dc.date.freetoread2025-05-24
dc.date.issued2024-12-31
dc.descriptionThe final version will be available online from a forthcoming edition of Antiquity
dc.description.abstractAn 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.
dc.description.journalNameAntiquity
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by a British Academy grant (SG163375). The radiocarbon dates were funded by NERC’s NEIF programme (NF/2018/1/3).
dc.description.sponsorshipIsotope analyses were partially funded by a British Academy Newton International Fellowship to T.F-C (NF17085).
dc.identifier.citationSchulting 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.
dc.identifier.eissn1745-1744
dc.identifier.elementsID552565
dc.identifier.issn0003-598X
dc.identifier.urihttps://antiquity.ac.uk/
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/22962
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectArchaeology
dc.subject4301 Archaeology
dc.titleThe darker angels of our nature: a butchered Early Bronze Age human bone assemblage from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.subtypeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-05-24

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