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The Beginning of Violence, Science Now
 









Excerpt: 
 

Sign of foul play. A projectile point (arrow) in a vertebra of an ancient
skeleton hints at an early start to human violence.
Credit: Fanny Bocquentin/Journal Of Human Evolution

 


Anthropologists and archaeologists have long suspected that social tensions
began to arise after the advent of settled life, when hunter-gatherers formed
close-knit communities and eventually took up farming. Yet evidence for this
hypothesis has been lacking. The best-studied early sedentary peoples, the
Natufians--who occupied parts of present-day Israel beginning about 14,500 years
ago--were thought (...) to have been fairly peaceful.


 Now a study of one of the richest collections of Natufian skeletons, from
Kebara Cave on Mount Carmel, has turned up fresh evidence of violence among
these early settlers.
Source: The Beginning of Violence[
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2004/915/1?etoc ], Michael
Balter, Science Now, 04/09/15

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