Researchers say remains of 27 murdered tribespeople in Kenya prove attacks were normal part of hunter-gatherer relations Some 10000 years ago a woman in the final stages of pregnancy met a terrible death,trussed like a captive animal and dumped into shallow water at the edge of a Kenyan lagoon. She died with at least 27 members of her tribe, all equally brutally murdered, and in the earliest evidence of warfare between stone age hunter-gatherers. The fossilised remains of the victims,still lying where they fell, preserved in the sediment of a marshy pool that dried up thousands of years ago, and were found by a team of scientists from Cambridge University.
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Source: theguardian.com