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- doi: 10.15184/aqy.2020.161
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Teresa Fernández-Crespo et al., « Make a desert and call it peace: Massacre at the Iberian Iron Age village of La Hoya », HAL-SHS : histoire, ID : 10.15184/aqy.2020.161
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Once considered rare, archaeological examples of violence in prehistoric Europe have accumulated over recent decades, with new discoveries providing evidence of large-scale, organised warfare among pre- and protohistoric populations. One example is La Hoya in north-central Iberia. Between the mid fourth and late third centuries BC, the site was subjected to a violent attack, its inhabitants killed and the settlement burned. Here the authors present osteological analyses for a massacre: decapitations, amputations and other sharp-force injuries affecting a wide cross section of the community. They interpret the massacre as an instance of conflict between rival local communities, contributing to a growing picture of the scale and nature of violence in Iron Age Europe.