Archaeologists have studied the remains of 38 people from the Eneolithic burial in Potocani in Croatia. Their death came in 4200 BC.
According to the portal “Phys”, analyzing DNA, scientists have discovered family ties between the buried. They also established their gender, age, and studied the traces of a violent death.
Thirty percent of those buried were relatives of each other. The number of women and men was approximately the same, but the ages at the time of death were different.
Such data allowed experts to exclude versions that people became victims of internecine wars or other “selective” killings. Craniocerebral trauma was found in 13 of the victims. It is emphasized that most cases of violent death do not leave obvious marks on the bones.
In this regard, experts concluded that they had found evidence of one of the oldest incidents of indiscriminate massacre, an act of deliberate mass murder of people not ready for battle.
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