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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Stone Age Massacre Revealed in British Tombs


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A human vertebra found in a Stone Age British grave is embedded with an arrowhead, indicating a violent death. Other remains found in four tombs in southern England show additional signs of violence and upheaval in Britain some 5,500 years ago, according to a new study.

Photograph © EH/NMR