'Overkill' injuries on Bronze Age skeletons reveal fierce feuding in ancient China
When you buy through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate deputation . Here ’s how it works . Dozens of frame bury in a 3,700 - year - onetime cemetery inChinashow evidence of extreme hurt , suggest that assailant felt a need to " overkill " their victims in sanguinary raids during the Bronze Age . " One individual had 18 separate stab wounds to the cranial hurdle , which is obviously more than is need to incapacitate or kill a person,“Elizabeth Berger , a bioarchaeologist at the University of California , Riverside , read in a display April 24 at theSociety for American Archaeologyannual meeting in Denver , Colorado ....