It’s taken us all aback,” said a professor who led a study revealing that 37 people in a prehistoric site in England were likely consumed by their attackers.

At least 37 people from Early Bronze Age England were butchered and likely cannibalized before being thrown down a shaft during a grim chapter of British prehistory.

Researchers determined that dozens of men, women and children were violently killed and cannibalized in Bronze Age-era England.

The aftermath of an “exceptionally violent” attack in early Bronze Age England suggests that at least 37 people may have been “systematically dismembered” and eaten, new research has revealed.

A collection of bronze age bones discovered 50 years ago in Somerset has revealed evidence of cannibalism, as well as the bloodiest known bronze age massacre.

Deep beneath the peaceful Somerset countryside lies evidence of one of British prehistory’s darkest chapters – a mass killing that forces us to reconsider everything we thought we knew about violence in ancient societies.