Researchers discover a 5000-year-old house with 97 skeletons in China

It was a most strange find in China - the remains of 97 human bodies stuffed into a small 20-square meter 5,000-year-old house in a prehistoric village in the northeast. An anthropological team at Jilin University in China is studying these prehistoric remains, trying to determine what had happened to these people.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 29 July 2015.

The remains include bodies of juveniles, young adults and middle-age adults - all are crammed into the 5000-year-old house. In the opinion of experts, it could have been the result of a 'prehistoric disaster' like an epidemic of sorts.
The modern-day name of the site is 'Hamin Mangha' in Inner Mongolia. It appears to date back to a time before writing was used in the area and when people lived in relatively small settlements, growing crops and hunting for food. There are remains of pottery, grinding instruments, arrows and spearheads that throw some light on their way of life.
The house has been dubbed 'F40.'
Incidental, the skeletons in the northwest are relatively complete, but those in the east have only the skulls, with limb bones scarcely remaining. In the south, limb bones have been discovered stacked in two or three layers. Moreover, on the floor there are numerous human skeletons scattered in a haphazard manner.
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