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Early Bronze Age Butchered Human Remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK
‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK
That this was the result of intentional action is clear, firstly because this kind of symmetrical breakage would be highly unusual for post-depositional taphonomic damage, and secondly because of the presence of a series of distinctive C- and D-shaped percussion pits on the condyles, adjacent to the removals ( Figure 8). Application of strontium ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) and oxygen ( δ 18 O) isotopic analyses can indicate the geographic origin of dietary resources and water that were consumed while dental enamel was forming and, by extension, the area in which an individual grew up (see OSM S8 for methods and references). The cranial injuries and the absence of projectile points at CWFS, despite evidence for the use of the bow and arrow in Early Bronze Age conflicts (e.g. the male from the ditch at Stonehenge, 2338–1899 cal BC, BM-1582: 3715±70 BP; Evans Reference Evans1984), suggests that the violence was face-to-face from the outset, and not the result of an armed confrontation between two groups.
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