“Scientists at Binghamton University have analyzed fatal wounds on a 430,000-year-old skull, and believe that they have uncovered one of the oldest murder cases known to man. The skeletal remains in question were found at an archaeological site in Spain, where at least 28 other skeletons were also discovered.”
–“Wanted: 430,000-Year-Old Murder Suspect,” Dustin Petzold, Big Think
More:
“Lethal Interpersonal Violence in the Middle Pleistocene,” Nohemi Sala, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Ana Pantoja-Pérez, et al., PLOS one, May 27, 2015
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