LONDON: Archaeologists say wounds on a 430,000-year-old skull found in Spain would have been lethal, making it possibly one of the earliest cases of murder in human history.
Using modern forensic techniques, researchers have determined two blows to the head probably killed the victim before the body was thrown into a deep cave system in northern Spain.
The site in the Atapuerca Mountains is known as Sima de los Huesos, the “pit of the bones,” containing bones fragments of the skeleton of at least 28 individuals.
Several Homo species have been found there, including Homo heidelbergensis and another species as yet unidentified that paleontologists simply call the “Sima de los Huesos hominin.”
One skull, pieced together from more than 50 fragments, shows two holes above the left eye, the result of two impacts from the same object, researchers say.
The injuries are unlikely to have been the result of an accidental fall down the cave system’s vertical entrance shaft, they add, since in such a case it would be extremely unlikely for the same object to hit the skull twice.
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