A team of Cambridge scientists has uncovered evidence of an ancient massacre 10,000 years ago near Lake Turkana, Kenya. Reported in Nature, the find is making news because—as the team explains in the video up above—nomadic hunter-gatherer societies aren’t usually associated with such violence. Researchers said their study offers “unique evidence that warfare was part of the repertoire” of early hunter-gatherers, a controversial assertion in the disputed history of human war.
Of the 27 bodies found by the team, 12 were roughly intact, and 10 showed clear evidence of violent deaths.” The researchers wrote that four of the victims even appeared to have had their hands bound, including a pregnant woman.
