How long the men of war are there? Researchers have found in Kenya a set of skeletons bearing traces of fatal injury, suggesting a « mass murder » 10,000 years ago when prehistoric man was not yet settled.

« These remains testify to the intentional killing of a small group of people in search of food. They provide the only proof of a warrior event among hunter-gatherers of prehistoric times, » say the scientists in a study published Wednesday in the British journal Nature.

« I never imagined in my dreams find the remains of the oldest documented massacres of History » in hunter-gatherer, enthuses Marta Mirazon Lahr, an anthropologist at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), which spearheaded the excavations (…)

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