Massacre of Schletz
| Massacre of Schletz | |
|---|---|
Victim of the massacre: skull of a 40- to 50-year-old woman | |
| Location | now Schletz, Austria |
| Date | c. 5000 BC |
Attack type | Mass murder, assault |
| Deaths | 200 |
| Perpetrators | unknown |
In the Massacre of Schletz, more than 200 Neolithic people were killed by blunt force around 5000 BC, towards the end of the Linear Pottery culture epoch, before being carelessly dumped in a mass grave on the site of the present-day village of Schletz (in the municipality of Asparn an der Zaya in Lower Austria).