A 4,000-year-old murder mystery began with a massacre in what’s now southwestern England. Then came dismemberment, possibly accompanied by cannibalism.
At least 37 men, women and children suffered this violent fate, ending up dumped into a 15-meter-deep natural shaft by unknown attackers, say archaeologist Rick Schulting of the University of Oxford and colleagues. The perpetrators also threw butchered parts of cattle and other domestic and wild animals into the shaft, the researchers report December 16 in Antiquity.
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