Is violence a trait of our species, or did war come later when man had to start defending his properties?
This question has divided scientists for a very long time.
And in this sense, the site of Jebel Sahaba is one of the most striking in archeology.
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Discovered in 1965 on the border between Egypt and Sudan, under what is today Lake Nasser of the Aswan Dam, this necropolis was considered the marker of the first battle in human history.
A conflict that would have taken place between 13,000 and 17,000 years ago on the edges of the Nile.
But the work carried out by a team of French researchers on sixty skeletons, published in the journal
Scientific Report
s reveal a more complex picture.
The deaths of Jebel Sahaba would not be the victims of a single great battle, but those of a multitude of conflicts.
“We have re-studied all the bones between 2013 and 2019,”
explains
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