“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment.”

The brutal end of the Linear Pottery culture, LBK, Europe's first farmers.

https://www.science.org/content/article/headless-bodies-hint-why-europe-s-first-farmers-vanished

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Archaeologists are currently re-excavating a fortified settlement at Eilsleben in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, one of the largest Neolithic settlements in Central Europe. This site, associated with the Linear Pottery Culture (LBK), which dates back to around 5500-4500 BCE, was first identified in the 1920s and later extensively explored between 1974 and 1989...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/09/one-of-europes-largest-neolithic-settlements/

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