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This episode discusses various cave paintings from the Stone Age that depict images of violence, challenging previous assumptions about the era. Explore the contrasting world of the Neolithic and Mesolithic periods in today's episode.

Sources:

• ResearchGate: A massacre of early Neolithic farmers
• Live Science: Neolithic massacre bones found in Spanish cave
• Wiley Online Library: American Journal of Physical Anthropology
• Academia.edu: Rock Art Recording Methods

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