Make a desert and call it peace: massacre at the Iberian Iron Age village of La Hoya

• Autores: Teresa Fernández Crespo, Javier Ordoño, Armando Llanos Ortiz de Landaluze, Rick J. Schulting
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 94, Nº 377, 2020, págs. 1245-1262
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.