‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK

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dc.contributor.authorSchulting, Rick J.
dc.contributor.authorFernández-Crespo, Teresa
dc.contributor.authorOrdoño, Javier
dc.contributor.authorBrock, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorKellow, Ashleigh
dc.contributor.authorSnoeck, Christophe
dc.contributor.authorCartwright, Ian R.
dc.contributor.authorWalker, David
dc.contributor.authorLoe, Louise
dc.contributor.authorAudsley, Tony
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-23T14:31:05Z
dc.date.available2024-09-23T14:31:05Z
dc.date.freetoread2025-01-07
dc.date.issued2024-12-16
dc.description.abstractDirect physical evidence for violent interpersonal conflict is seen only sporadically in the archaeological record for prehistoric Britain. Human remains from Charterhouse Warren, south-west England, therefore present a unique opportunity for the study of mass violence in the Early Bronze Age. At least 37 men, women and children were killed and butchered, their disarticulated remains thrown into a 15m-deep natural shaft in what is, most plausibly, interpreted as a single event. The authors examine the physical remains and debate the societal tensions that could motivate a level and scale of violence that is unprecedented in British prehistory.
dc.description.journalNameAntiquity
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by a British Academy grant (SG163375). The radiocarbon dates were funded by NERC’s NEIF programme (NF/2018/1/3).
dc.description.sponsorshipIsotope analyses were partially funded by a British Academy Newton International Fellowship to T.F-C (NF17085).
dc.identifier.citationSchulting RJ, Fernández-Crespo T, Ordoño J, et al., (2024) ‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK. Antiquity, Available online 16 December 2024
dc.identifier.eissn1745-1744
dc.identifier.elementsID552565
dc.identifier.issn0003-598X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.180
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/22962
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectArchaeology
dc.subject4301 Archaeology
dc.subjectSouth-west England
dc.subjectBeaker
dc.subjectviolence
dc.subjectcutmarks
dc.subjectcranial trauma
dc.subjectcannibalism
dc.title‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.subtypeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-05-24

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