Mass grave in Poland embodies the violent beginning of the Bronze Age

“We have other mass graves and evidence of violence from this period, so it seems that Koszyce was not a single rare event,” Morten Erik Allentoft of the Natural History Museum of Denmark told Ars Technica. Like most people living in Central Europe at the time, the Globular Amphora group were probably cattle herders who moved across the landscape as the seasons changed. The DNA sequences allowed the archaeologists to calculate the relationships between every pair of individuals in the group, and they found four nuclear families, mostly mothers and their children (fathers, and adult males in general, were conspicuously absent from the grave).

Source: arstechnica.com