4,000-year-old bones reveal 'unprecedented' violence — tongue removal, cannibalism and evisceration in Bronze Age Britain
When you buy through links on our website , we may pull in an affiliate delegation . Here ’s how it works . More than 4,000 years ago , intimately 40 people died extremely violent deaths in what is now England , with a modern analysis of their bones reveal scalping , clapper remotion , beheading , defleshing , disembowelment and cannibalism . " It paints a considerably saturnine picture of the menses than many would have expected,“Rick Schulting , an archeologist at the University of Oxford , said in a statement , and it ’s " a stark admonisher that people in prehistory could couple more recent atrocities ....