Spanish cave reveals ancient murder mystery
By Reuters | China Daily | Updated: 2015-06-01 07:28
Scientists working in a Spanish cave may have stumbled across the world's oldest murder mystery.
A fossilized skull belonging to a primitive member of the Neanderthal lineage shows two fractures inflicted by the same weapon.
The 430,000-year-old skull was found with the remains of 30 individuals in an apparent funerary site at the bottom of a 13-meter shaft in the bleak-sounding Sima de los Huesos, or Pit of the Bones, in the Atapuerca mountains.
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