From the original paper:
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The mass burial from Potočani is a result of indiscriminate killing of an unrelated subset of a population with no sex and age bias, rather than a battle between two armed forces. This hypothesis is based on the demographic composition of the Potočani assemblage that includes both sexes and various age groups completely differing from the distribution seen in battle-related assemblages where younger/middle-aged males are predominant [36–41]. In terms of demographic distributions it is obvious that the Potočani assemblage is almost identical to other prehistoric massacres like Talheim [7], Asparn/Schletz [8], Schöneck-Kilianstädten [11] and Koszyce [13], but also to more recent examples [42–44] where whole or parts of communities were wiped out. The reasons for the upsurge of mass violence as well as the occurrence of massacres during the Neolithic (and Eneolithic) in Europe are “complex and multifactorial” [11]. Nevertheless, the combination of adverse climatic conditions and significant increase in population size is usually provided as the most probable reason for this phenomenon [8, 12, 45].
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8. Teschler-Nicola M, Gerold F, Bujatti-Narbeshuber M, Prohaska T, Latkoczy C, Stingeder G, et al. Evidence of genocide 7000 BP—Neolithic paradigm and geoclimatic reality. Coll Antropol. 1999; 23: 437–450. pmid:10646219
12. Meyer C, Knipper C, Nicklisch N, Münster A, Kürbis O, Dresely V, et al. Early Neolithic executions indicated by clustered cranial trauma in the mass grave of Halberstadt. Nat Commun. 2018; 9: 2472. pmid:29941965
45. Gronenborn D, Strien H-C, Dietrich S, Sirocko F. ‘Adaptive cycles’ and climate fluctuations: A case study from Linear Pottery Culture in western Central Europe. J Archaeol Sci. 2014; 51: 73–83.
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