Massacre of Schletz

Massacre of Schletz
Victim of the massacre: skull of a 40- to 50-year-old woman
LocationSchletz, modern-day Austria
Datec. 5000 BC
Attack type
Mass murder, assault
Deaths200
Perpetratorsunknown

In the Massacre of Schletz, more than 200 Neolithic people were killed by blunt force 7,000 years ago (5000 BC), towards the end of the Linear Pottery culture epoch, before being carelessly dumped in a mass grave on the site of the present-day village of Schletz (in the municipality of Asparn an der Zaya in Lower Austria).