Scientists discovered the Mogou cemetery in Ganta province with 3700 years old.
Skele with signs of extreme cruelty have been found there, this shows bloodthirsty raids in the era of copper, writing Direct science.
One of the individuals with 18 wounds crashed into the skull, clearly, more than needed to deprive a person's life, Elizabeth Berger, a biologist from the University of California in Riverside, at the annual meeting of the American Archeology Association in Denvero, Colorado.
The cemetery belongs to the bronze age, the culture of Qiji. It is used for burial from 1750 to 1100. BC. e. More than 1,600 tombs with more than 5,000 buried people were found there. This is mainly farmers, metal exchange and ceramic products with other communities in the region. In 2019, the researchers published Pre -study Some skeletons from Mogou, showing the abnormal level of high injury on adult turtles. A new study includes 348 skulls of adults and adolescents. It also shows many injuries: 11.1% find signs of unknown wounds (wounds stabbing, dumb and damage from arrows and copies).
The researchers were particularly surprised by the fact that most adults had many wounds, and not the only critical blow: 55% of them had three or many skull wounds.
There are no other archaeological objects in such violent areas – this is unique, Mr. Berger said.
Men are more often than women with many wounds on the skull. Moreover, many men were protected by the Viking: fractures of the hand. Injury on different parts of the skull – in front and back – propose the ability to attack some people. On one of the skulls, a man has a large cut and wounds from the shots, which shows a brutal attack.
Although the reasons for the massacre are not known, it is believed that it may be war and raid or hatred in the blood.
Mogou work continues, including research on animal bones, parasites and ancient DNA, to understand the lifestyle in the movement to the dryer and the climate is colder.