The first murder in history.
A study published in the journal PLoS ONE presents the first murder in the history of Humanity has ever recorded, detected in one of 17 hominid skulls found at the site of Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain).
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| The first murder in history. |
This is a skull of about 430,000 years old, belonging to a young man who died of two shots in the forehead made with a blunt object. As explained Nohemi room, one of the researchers, this extraordinary find required in addition to years of work, a certain amount of chance: "We have been extremely lucky.
We found a skull with two nearby impacts and fracture whose contours shaped to match perfectly. " The scientists created a 3D digital model of the skull and its fractures to observe the outline of the wound; by this classic forensic expertise it could determine how the assassination, although it is unknown what material was the weapon.
How can it be known that the fractures were the cause of death and did not occur later, for example when falling? The study explains that fractures are located in the usual places for a face to face confrontation; Moreover, both in the frontal bone fractures have different trajectories, were caused by the same hard object and are very close to each other with no other breaks in the skull, which rules out the hypothesis of a fall. Neither signs of healing and recovery of bone tissue, ie the fatal blows were recorded, making it the first recorded murder in history.
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