Thousands of ancient butchered human bones found in a deep shaft in southwest England have pointed archaeologists to a grim chapter of British prehistory that occurred during the Early Bronze Age.

Archaeologist says human and animal bones found at Charterhouse Warren were mixed and reveal a dark side of human behaviour Bronze Age Britons were cannibals who ate their enemies, suggests new ...

It is the largest case of violence between humans identified in early Bronze Age England, which had been considered a peaceful time. The victims' bones were found by cavers in the 1970s.

A study of early Bronze Age bones in Britain has revealed a shockingly violent and barbaric end for dozens of unfortunate individuals. The remains, excavated from the Charterhouse Warren site in ...

Antiquity, December 2024. (Credit: Schulting et al. Antiquity, December 2024.) Researchers in England uncovered the skeletal remains of 37 Bronze Age individuals, and further analysis indicated that ...