{"id":4556,"date":"2016-01-20T15:33:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T20:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4556"},"modified":"2016-01-22T15:40:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T20:40:25","slug":"the-first-massacre-in-recorded-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-first-massacre-in-recorded-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The first massacre in recorded history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4557\" style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8.-KNM-WT-71259-773x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4557\" class=\"wp-image-4557\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8.-KNM-WT-71259-773x1024.jpg\" alt=\"This skeleton of a woman was found reclining on her left elbow, with fractures on the knees and possibly the left foot. The position of the hands suggests her wrists may have been bound. She was found surrounded by fish. (Image credit: Marta Mirazon Lahr)\" width=\"377\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This skeleton of a woman was found reclining on her left elbow, with fractures on the knees and possibly the left foot. The position of the hands suggests her wrists may have been bound. She was found surrounded by fish.<br \/> (Image credit: Marta Mirazon Lahr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Human remains reveal a rare instance of intergroup violence among prehistoric hunter-gatherers. Researchers found the remains of at least 27 people at a site in Kenya, including ten skeletons showing signs of blunt-force or sharp-force trauma to the head and\/or neck.<\/p>\n<p>The remains, dating to 9,500 &#8211; 10,500 years ago were found with no signs of deliberate burial, supporting the author\u2019s view that this is an example of intergroup violence.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LbCE52HTBuk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video credit:\u00a0Nature Video<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature16477\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>January 19<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Marta Miraz\u00f3n Lahr,\u00a0Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human remains reveal a rare instance of intergroup violence among prehistoric hunter-gatherers. Researchers found the remains of at least 27 people at a site in Kenya, including ten skeletons showing signs of blunt-force or sharp-force trauma to the head and\/or neck. The remains, dating to 9,500 &#8211; 10,500 years ago were found with no signs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1851,917,1812,1647,2490,2455],"class_list":["post-4556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-anthropology","tag-evolution","tag-history","tag-human-behaviour","tag-violence","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1bu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}