I would have been more excited about Potočani three years ago when I was reading about 4200 BC "Old Europe" and the various feminist interpretations of same. But anyway. Anthro Twitter and what's left of the anthro blogosphere is on it soooo....
Potočani is a site now in Croatia that overlooks the Pannonian Plain. So, Balkans. 4200 BC is before The Rise Of The Sons Of Aryas; their fathers were G2, I2, C-V20 and not R1a/b (nor E). So: Lasinja, Copper-Age. These servants of the Goddess got into a fight with other servants of the Goddess and, well, created those remains.
It was a massacre. The authors don't say genocide: only 41 victims are registered (so far) and they're only distantly (but mutually) related (they estimate 20,100–75,600 breeders). Also there was no "population turnover", such as found in the British Isles in the Bell Beaker wake.
One difference: generally consuming more animal products than their neighbors
. They also had better teeth - but there was scurvy. So their diet was more meat, less milled grain. I don't find them to have been particularly wealthy.
Farmers against herders. First they shut off the herders' vitamin C. Then came the murder.
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