Hunter-gatherer massacre suggests groups of humans waged war earlier than we thought
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 07:51
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The area surrounding Lake Turkana in Kenya was lush and fertile 10,000 years ago, with thousands of animals – including elephants, giraffes and zebras – roaming around alongside groups of hunter gatherers. But it also had a dark side. We have discovered the oldest known case of violence between two groups of hunter gatherers took place there, with ten excavated skeletons showing evidence of having been killed with both sharp and blunt weapons.