Around 5000 BCE, the Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) of first European farmers experienced a meltdown. After meany centuries of peace, suddenly war broke out between settlements and there are traces of mass slaughter of whole villages. We know when it happened and what happened to a great extent, but we don't know why peace suddenly collapsed all across the LBK cultural region.
This appears to have been an internal Neolithic era event. It preceded the Bronze and Copper Ages, and preceded Indo-European expansion.
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