More than 4,000 years ago, nearly 40 people died extremely violent deaths in what is now England, with a modern analysis of their bones revealing scalping, tongue removal, decapitation, defleshing, evisceration and cannibalism.
"It paints a considerably darker picture of the period than many would have expected," Rick Schulting, an archaeologist at the University of Oxford, said in a statement, and it's "a stark reminder that people in prehistory could match more recent atrocities."
