In Spain are proof of the first murder in history – La Razon

          

Scientists at Atapuerca, Spain identified lethal wounds in a human skull after a forensic study shows that the man was capable of murder violently from 430 thousand years ago.

According to La Razon Spain, the finding, published in the journal PLoS ONE, was conducted in almost complete skull, called “Cranium 17″ composed of 52 fragments that have been recovered during excavations in the past 20 years.

This has two skull fractures perimeter depression in the front, suggesting two episodes of trauma. The type of injury, its location, the great similarity of the fractures in shape and size, and different orientations and implied paths of the two fractures suggest that occurred on the same subject in a face to face confrontation, according to the article published by PLOS ONE.

The skull in question was recovered with the remains of 27 other individuals in excavations carried out between 1990 and 2010.

According to the study, the finding of the skull 17, together to an accumulation of skeletal remains it shows that violence between humans is an inherent human behavior and man.