[SunkenCiv]

Mass burial in plastered basin in the Outer Town at Titris Hoyuk. Image: Titris Hoyuk Photographic Archive

[DManA]

Pinpoints where this pernicious idea of Kingship entered the world.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[wideminded]

The human remains come from the site of Titris Hoyuk, dating to 2900-2100 BCE.

"Çatalhöyük ( also Çatal Höyük ...) was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BCE to 5700 BCE ." - Wikipedia

So, despite the age of this site, people had already been living in towns in Anatolia for an enormously long time when this massacre happened, in fact for longer than the time from then to now.

[Verginius Rufus]

I vote for Indo-European-speaking invaders. They didn’t expand from India to the Iberian peninsula by being nice.