Archaeologists in Ukraine have unearthed the remains of seven individuals who died in a violent fire nearly 6,000 years ago. Forensic analysis suggests the victims were killed and then their house was set ablaze. The discovery offers a chilling glimpse into prehistoric life and violence.
DETECTIVES have solved the “world’s oldest cold case ” as battered human bones give clues to seven brutal deaths almost 6,000 years ago. Archaeologists discovered a scene of mass death in 2004 with nearly 100 pieces of human bone at the site of a prehistoric house.
The dwelling from 5,700 years ago had been in the ancient settlement of Kosenivka, about 115 miles south of the Ukrainian capitalThe bones from most of the Stone Age skeletons were charred and burned, and two of the skulls had been brutally caved in.COLD CASEHowever, the realisation that two of the adults suffered violent head trauma just before their deaths sparked a 5,700-year forensicdetermined that six of the people, possibly a family, died between 3690 and 3620 BC, whilst the seventh - an unburnt adult - died around 130 years later.Watch chilling robot doing LAUNDRY as China touts chore-busting tech Researchers studied closely the fracture patterns and discolouration displayed by the bones to deduce all they could about the last moments of the Stone Age people. The team concluded that the people inside had been burned to death, unable to escape the flames, whilst the others managed to stagger outside but later succumbed to smoke inhalation.The brutal head injuries, however, remain the subject of speculation., suggested that the death scene involved someone “killing the people in the house, leaving their corpses, and setting the house on fire”. The study paper also believes that the house and bodies were completely covered with soil soon after the tragedy, and then the skull of someone else was placed on top a century later. The authors believe that the final skull could have been placed on top of the site as part of a deliberate ritual. Jordan Karsten, an archeologist at the University of Wisconsin, told Live Science: 'It seems reasonable that the individuals recovered from Kosenivka were killed during a raid and that their house was lit on fire during the conflic
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