Spanish researchers have discovered the oldest known crimes case so far. Her victim was killed in northern Spain, in the region of the Sierra de Atapuerca, about 430 thousand. years ago in the mid-Pleistocene era. Analysis of damage to the skull, which probably led to the death indicates that death could be the result of an accident, but a conscious act. Scientists Universidad Complutense de Madrid describe this case in the journal “PLoS ONE.”
Archaeological position Sima de los Huesos is in a deep cavern system. There were found bones so far 28 representatives of the genre probably even before the Neanderthals. The skull bearing the traces of the crime consists of 52 fragments, found there during ongoing for more than 20 years of excavations. After its submission scientists found two wounds, which aroused their suspicion.
The analysis carried out with the help of today’s most sophisticated forensic techniques indicates that two holes visible in the victim’s forehead above the left eye socket were asked the same sharp instrument. Strokes occurred, however, at slightly different angle. This indicates that the impact could not be a coincidence, could not arise, for example, in connection with the fall from a height. The victim could not also ask them herself. It must have been murder.
Above the place where the bones were discovered there is a vertical shaft with a height of 13 meters, until now it was not known how the remains could be found at this location. Recent discovery that one of the skulls belonged to a murder victim indicates that the delay may have been dumped there, and Sima de los Huesos may be an example of the original place of burial.
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