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NATURE & Archeology on Human Violence: Nature (Innate) Vs Nurture (Learned)

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Jan 25, 2016, 4:39:29 PM1/25/16

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7586/full/nature16477.html

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/10-000-year-old-massacre-does-not-bolster-claim-that-war-is-innate/

http://www.regaltribune.com/origins-of-warfare-may-have-been-brought-to-light-in-kenya/25173/

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/evidence-of-a-prehistoric-massacre-extends-the-history-of-warfare

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The nature of inter-group relations among prehistoric hunter-gatherers remains disputed, with arguments in favour and against the existence of warfare before the development of sedentary societies1, 2.

Here we report on a case of inter-group violence towards a group of hunter-gatherers from Nataruk, west of Lake Turkana, which during the late Pleistocene/early Holocene period extended about 30 km beyond its present-day shore3. Ten of the twelve articulated skeletons found at Nataruk show evidence of having died violently at the edge of a lagoon, into which some of the bodies fell.

The remains from Nataruk are unique, preserved by the particular conditions of the lagoon with no evidence of deliberate burial.

They offer a rare glimpse into the life and death of past foraging people, and evidence that warfare was part of the repertoire of inter-group relations among prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

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