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LONDON: Even CSI agents would struggle to solve this murder – believed to be the first ever, it happened 430,000 years ago.
Yes, you heard that right. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of what may be the world’s first confirmed intentional killing.
Researchers found deadly wounds on a human skull at the Sima de los Huesos (Pit Of Bones) archeological site in Spain.
‘This skull shows two penetrating lesions on the frontal bone, above the left eye,’ said study leader Doctor Nohemi Sala, from the UCM-ISCIII Centre for the Evolution and Human Behaviour in Madrid.
The team found two holes close together in the skull, above the left eye, caused by two separate impacts from the same object following slightly different trajectories.
The injuries were inflicted around the time of the individual’s death and were not consistent with an accidental fall down the 13-metre (42.6ft) deep vertical shaft at Sima de los Huesos.
The underground site contains remains of more than 28 people who could be traced back 430,000 years, but how they got there is still a mystery.
