The first great European war took place in the north of the Iberian Peninsula over 5,000 years ago

The first great European war took place in the north of the Iberian Peninsula over 5,000 years ago

In 1985, while working to widen a road near Laguardia in Álava, Spain, a digger uncovered a massive burial site. There were thousands of bones that took some time to sort out. The remains were crowded, mixed and placed in unnatural positions. Those who first studied them maintained that it was a mass grave into which the victims of a massacre had been thrown. At the time, the idea of large-scale conflicts in the Neolithic era thousands of years …