A dead end on the way to the sky – Nature.com

A baby, a child only a few years old, a teenage girl adorned with bracelets: these are some of the people killed and left where they lay in a prehistoric town, testament to a massacre more than 2,300 years ago.
The settlement of La Hoya, in what is now Spain, was discovered in 1935, but has been little studied. Teresa Fernández-Crespo at the University of Oxford, UK, and her colleagues analysed human bones found at La Hoya, identifying the remains of 13 people, ranging from an infant to adults.
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