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Skull with blunt force trauma
New analysis of human remains found at the site of Charterhouse Warren in southwest England has revealed shocking evidence of a macabre event that occurred in the Bronze Age (ca. 2500–700 b.c.). In the 1970s, 3,000 fragments of human bone were discovered near the bottom of a narrow, 50-foot-deep cavern, but for the last half century, little has been learned about them. Now, using radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis, researchers have determined that the remains
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