A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin.

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Title: A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin.
Authors: Fibiger L; School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. linda.fibiger@ed.ac.uk., Iraeta-Orbegozo M; Section for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. orbegozo@sund.ku.dk.; School of Archaeology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. orbegozo@sund.ku.dk.; School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. orbegozo@sund.ku.dk., Koledin J; Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia., Laffoon JE; Department of Archaeological Sciences, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands., Makarewicz CA; Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany., Mylopotamitaki D; Section for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.; Chaire de Paléoanthropologie, CIRB, Collège de France, Université PSL, CNRS, INSERM, Paris, France., Bruyere C; School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland., Booth T; The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK., Bronk Ramsey C; Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK., Layfield R; School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK., Anchieri L; Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland., Huang Y; Section for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark., Kjær Knudsen A; Section for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark., Niemann J; Section for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark., Radmanović D; Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia., Oldham NJ; School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK., Shaw B; School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK., Tracy S; School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland., Nylund S; Sara Nylund Graphics, Ostrobothnia, Finland., Daly JS; School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.; Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.; SFI Research Centre in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG), University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland., Winter-Schuh C; Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany., van Acken D; School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland., Ringbauer H; Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.; Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, Leipzig, Germany., Mittnik A; Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.; Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, Leipzig, Germany., Ramos-Madrigal J; Section for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark., Schroeder H; Section for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. hschroeder@sund.ku.dk.; School of Archaeology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. hschroeder@sund.ku.dk., Molloy B; School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. barry.molloy@ucd.ie.
Source: Nature human behaviour [Nat Hum Behav] 2026 Apr; Vol. 10 (4), pp. 656-668. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Feb 23.
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