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Scientists Find Evidence of 'History's First Murder'
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| May 28, 2015 5:35 AM CDT
| Rob Quinn
Posted on 05/28/2015 2:00:28 PM PDT by Sopater
An examination of ancient remains from a cave in Spain turned into an episode of CSI: Middle Pleistocene when scientists found evidence of what they say is the first known murder. The skull found in the "Pit of Bones" site belongs to a young adult who lived around 430,000 years ago and bears what researchers say are unmistakable signs of deadly violence, reports Forbes, which notes that the scientists have assembled enough evidence to convince a modern jury that the early human was likely killed by a right-handed attacker who hit the victim in the head twice with some kind of objectand it wouldn't take a prehistoric Columbo to deduce that the murder weapon was probably a rock.
This is the "earliest evidence of lethal interpersonal violence," the researchers write in the journal Plos Oneand they note that the evidence of murder could explain why that body and 27 more were lying at the bottom of a cave shaft, apparently placed there by others. Given what's known of human behavior in the intervening 430,000 years, the scientists weren't too startled to find that the early humans they're studying were bashing each other over the heads with rocks. "Violence is a very usual behavior for animals," the lead researcher tells the Guardian. "It's not surprising that interpersonal violence took place." (Another ancient Spanish cave yielded the burial site of a "queen of the Stone Age.")
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; science; spain
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...scientists weren't too startled to find that the early humans they're studying were bashing each other over the heads with rocks. "Violence is a very usual behavior for animals,"
You can't have it both ways. Animals don't commit 'murder" and humans are distinct from animals.
Interesting story, though.
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posted on
05/28/2015 2:00:28 PM PDT
by
Sopater
To: Sopater
Scientists Find Evidence of 'History's First Murder'Probably never heard of Cain and Able.
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posted on
05/28/2015 2:03:05 PM PDT
by
GoldenPup
To: Sopater
To: Sopater
Genesis 4:8 records the first murder.
To: Sopater; GoldenPup
I wonder if he was properly Mirandized?
To: Carl Vehse; GoldenPup
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posted on
05/28/2015 2:11:41 PM PDT
by
Sopater
(Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
To: Sopater
Seriously? They looked like that? In Spain?
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posted on
05/28/2015 2:12:34 PM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
To: Sopater
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posted on
05/28/2015 2:16:13 PM PDT
by
Sopater
(Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
To: Sooth2222
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posted on
05/28/2015 2:18:40 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Sopater
This just in. Scientists say a liberal tried to ban rocks 430,000 years ago.
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posted on
05/28/2015 2:21:22 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Sopater
How do they know it was not a sanctioned killing in a tribal war which means it was not a murder?
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posted on
05/28/2015 2:21:24 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: SunkenCiv; Sopater
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posted on
05/28/2015 2:22:03 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: DannyTN
Lol!
"Dude, rocks are dangerous. They need to be banned!"
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05/28/2015 2:24:11 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Sopater
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They found Abel’s remains?
.
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posted on
05/28/2015 2:25:32 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Sopater
or, while climbing, a rock fell and crushed the skull
blunt force trauma by falling rock
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05/28/2015 2:25:49 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
To: higgmeister
How do they know it was not a sanctioned killing in a tribal war which means it was not a murder?
Witnesses?
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05/28/2015 2:28:06 PM PDT
by
Sopater
(Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
To: Sopater
the murder weapon was probably a rock."Take the cannoli...leave the rock."
To: Sopater
It would have to be the second or so. The first murder happened in what is now northern Iraq in the second generation of humans.
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05/28/2015 2:33:20 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(The enemy's gate is down....and to the left.)
To: nickcarraway
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>> “Cain killed Abel?” <<
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Nah! he just bumped his knee against Abel’s head.
It was a assadent.
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05/28/2015 2:35:42 PM PDT
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editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: DannyTN
"And I suppose YOU think that's funny?
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05/28/2015 2:36:55 PM PDT
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ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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