Discovery in Kenya sheds light on the origins of warfare
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date: 11/05/2016
Project: IN AFRICA: THE ROLE OF EAST AFRICA IN TH...
acronym: IN-AFRICA
See also: CORDIS
Dr Mirazón Lahr’s team unearthed the remains of 27 individuals brutally murdered around 10,000 years ago from the sediment of a dried-up lagoon. They show clear signs of a traumatic death, such as skulls violently hit and skeletons stabbed with stone arrows or spear tips. The bodies had not been buried, but instead they had fallen into a marshy lagoon at the edge of Lake Turkana which – was much larger at that time helping preserve the remains in a relatively good state.