Prehistory · Episode 14
Talheim, 5000 BC: The Pit That Changed the Argument
Sourced historyA pit of thirty-four bodies in a German village turned an argument about whether Neolithic farmers fought at all into a question about how often.
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Read the sourced articleCover image: Vessel of the Linear Pottery culture from Wandersleben, Thuringia. Museum for Prehistory, Weimar. Photo: Wolfgang Sauber (source), CC BY-SA 4.0.
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