War is as old as time: Cambridge University researchers unveil massacred bodies dating back 10,000 years

No matter how young, weak or vulnerable their victims, the killers wanted no survivors. By the time they had finished their work, at least 27 people including six children and a heavily-pregnant woman, lay clubbed or stabbed to death. This was no spontaneous massacre. At least four of the dead, including the mother-to-be, were positioned as if their hands or feet had been bound while their heads, knees and limbs were smashed. There were to be no burials - the bodies of some were thrown into an adjoining lagoon while others were seemingly left to die where they fell. It may sound like an act of medieval barbarity or even an atrocity from the current killing fields of Syria.

But this act of indiscriminate slaughter dates back some 10,000 years and as such may represent the earliest evidence of humans at war.

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