Where anatolian farmers more violent?
I am new to studying neolithic and bronze age Europe. Something really intrigued me while studying and was wondering what the consensus is and what others think.
There are quite a few neolithic mass graves showing anatolian farmers were capable or great violence like the mass graves in Talheim, Schletz-Asparn, Herxheim, Schöneck-Kilianstädten. These include bodies of people of all ages and demonstrate great brutality and potentially cannibalism. I imagine as Europe got more and more crowded with farmers they started fighting over land and women.
However we do not find such mass graves from the period of indo-european expansion. There are some, but rarer and more isolated. It is strange that we do not find the levels of farmer violence that we see in earlier farmer cultures considering the huge genetic replacement of at least the male lines specially in western Europe.
I wonder what indo European expansion may have looked like on the field considering we are not finding destruction of entire villages.