When I imagine the Neolithic, I see people living in villages, farming, herding, hunting in the woods, dancing at harvest festivals, having babies and burying their dead, on and on for thousands of years, little changing from one century to the next.
Thinking about the signs of cannibalism at the German site of Herxheim, I realized that this can't be quite right. Evidence is mounting that dramatic events took place in Neolithic Europe, and the 500 bodies from Herxheim may well be the remains of one of them