Conflict, violence, and warfare among early farmers in Northwestern Europe.

ABSTRACT: Bioarchaeological evidence of interpersonal violence and early warfare presents important insights into conflict in past societies. This evidence is critical for understanding the motivations for violence and its effects on opposing and competing individuals and groups across time and space. Selecting the Neolithic of northwestern Europe as an area for study, the present paper examines the variation and societal context for the violence recorded in the human skeletal remains from this region as one of the most important elements of human welfare. Compiling data from various sources, it becomes apparent that violence was endemic in Neolithic Europe, sometimes reaching levels of intergroup hostilities that ended in the utter destruction of entire communities. While the precise comparative qu

SUBMITTER: Fibiger L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9942812 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature