Expert: Spain indeed found traces of ancient murder – RIA Novosti

An international team of scientists have found traces of “the first murder in the history of mankind.” In any case, we are talking about the ancient crime of this kind, traces of which have been studied by scientific methods.

Researchers studying the so-called “skull number 17″ from the cave Sima de los Uesos in northern Spain, We came to the conclusion that this man was killed 430,000 years ago. Analysis of the two breaks in the skull showed that the blows were likely inflicted person standing face to face with the victim. Scientists reject the possibility of these holes in an accident.

Sima de los Uesos (“Pit bones”) is famous for the remains found there the ancient people. Excavations carried out in it, since 1997.

The output of researchers is reasonable, said the founder and editor of the portal ANTROPOGENEZ.RU Alexander Sokolov. In his opinion, the nature of injury “skull number 17″ allows you to virtually eliminate both version of the accident and the death of a collision with a predator.

“It’s like a murder is very similar. In fact, if he had tripped and fell, as a joke: five times fell on the knife – this does not happen. There are two on the skull similar to each other in front of the hole, on the forehead, and left. Both break very similar to the result of impact with a hard object, such as – stone . What holes are located on the left side – this is important, because it could be the result of his right hand, any criminologist will confirm this. In the fight with a predator is not similar. In this cave found a lot of bones. It’s a 12-meter well. Summary a theory that the body dumped back on top. And found there bones teeth marks virtually no predators. No predatory animals do not bite it. Experts are able to distinguish traces of bites, bites from the tracks as a result of hitting some object “, – said Alexander Sokolov on the air Radio Sputnik.

Archaeologists suggest that the motives of the killers is not much different from the way of thinking of modern criminals – most likely, the murder was committed “to domestic violence.” But those days people themselves, even though they look different from our contemporaries, however, were just people, he said.
“They can be called human beings. Another thing is that it’s not the representatives of our species Homo sapiens. It Neanderthal ancestors – not even themselves Neanderthals and their ancestors, who at that time lived in Europe. They had a fairly large brain already has a certain culture. That is, it is full people. Although, of course, relatively speaking, Rome, they did not have time to establish, “- said Alexander Sokolov.