7,000-year-old massacre: 9 Neolithic outsiders murdered with blows to the head
July 09, 2018 at 11:36 AM EDT
About 7,000 years ago, the bodies of nine brutally murdered people were dumped into a mass grave on the edge of an ancient farming settlement. While their identities will never be known, one thing is certain: These nine individuals were interlopers — possibly failed raiders or POWs — who met violent ends, a new study finds.