Schulting, Rick J.Fernández-Crespo, TeresaOrdoño, JavierBrock, FionaKellow, AshleighSnoeck, ChristopheCartwright, Ian R.Walker, DavidLoe, LouiseAudsley, Tony2024-09-232024-09-232024-12-16Schulting 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 20240003-598Xhttps://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.180https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/22962Direct 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.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Archaeology4301 ArchaeologySouth-west EnglandBeakerviolencecutmarkscranial traumacannibalismArticle1745-1744552565