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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Vishwam Sankaran

Europe’s first ever large-scale war may have been fought ‘1000 years earlier than previously thought’

Scientific Reports

Europe’s first large-scale war likely began about 5,000 years ago in neolithic period – a thousand years earlier than previously thought, a new re-analysis of an archaeological dig suggests.

The latest analysis of over 300 sets of skeletal remains excavated at a site in Spain suggests many of the individuals were casualties of the earliest period of warfare in Europe.

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