article_snippet: Researchers and archeologists are conducting carbon dating and DNA testing to try to figure out when and why the people died, CNN affiliate, France's BFM-TV said.
article_snippet: It's clear they all died around the same time, lead
article_snippet: archeologist Isabelle Abadie told BFM-TV, because of the way the bodies were neatly arranged.
article_snippet: What's surprising is the bodies were not thrown in (the graves) but were carefully placed there in an organized manner.
article_snippet: The individuals, men, women, and children, were placed head-to-toe," to fit as many as possible in the grave, archeologist Isabelle Abadie explained.
article_snippet: Archeologists working the site have found eight common graves in an area that is 100 square meters, with seven of the graves containing between five and 20 skeletons each and another site with more than 150 skeletons, BFM-TV said.
article_snippet: The groupings suggest that whole families were buried together.