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There is evidence of brutal prehistoric warfare around 13,000 years ago when Eurasian migrants first entered North Africa.
Battlefields with many skeletons were uncovered by archaeologists, some had Sub-Saharan features, some looked Caucasoid.
"Saharan remains may be evidence of first race war, 13,000 years ago. The skeletons – from the east bank of the Nile in northern Sudan – are from victims of the world’s oldest known relatively large-scale human armed conflict":
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...f-first-race-war-13000-years-ago-9603632.html
To get the big picture of how warfare in the Stone Age / Neolithic period could look like - watch the video in my previous thread:
http://www.eupedia.com/forum/thread...one-Age-battle?p=475983&viewfull=1#post475983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BzqwOBneC4
Battlefields with many skeletons were uncovered by archaeologists, some had Sub-Saharan features, some looked Caucasoid.
"Saharan remains may be evidence of first race war, 13,000 years ago. The skeletons – from the east bank of the Nile in northern Sudan – are from victims of the world’s oldest known relatively large-scale human armed conflict":
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...f-first-race-war-13000-years-ago-9603632.html
(...) The discovery of dozens of previously undetected arrow impact marks and flint arrow fragments suggests that the majority of the individuals – men, women and children – in the Jebel Sahaba cemetery were killed by enemy archers, and then buried by their own people. What’s more, the new research demonstrates that the attacks – in effect a prolonged low-level war – took place over many months or years.
(...)
Work carried out at Liverpool John Moores University, the University of Alaska and New Orleans’ Tulane University indicates that they were part of the general sub-Saharan originating population – the ancestors of modern Black Africans. The identity of their killers is however less easy to determine. But it is conceivable that they were people from a totally different racial and ethnic group – part of a North African/ Levantine/European people who lived around much of the Mediterranean Basin.
The two groups – although both part of our species, Homo sapiens – would have looked quite different from each other and were also almost certainly different culturally and linguistically. The sub-Saharan originating group had long limbs, relatively short torsos and projecting upper and lower jaws along with rounded foreheads and broad noses, while the North African/Levantine/European originating group had shorter limbs, longer torsos and flatter faces. Both groups were very muscular and strongly built.
Certainly the northern Sudan area was a major ethnic interface between these two different groups at around this period. Indeed the remains of the North African/Levantine/European originating population group has even been found 200 miles south of Jebel Sahaba, thus suggesting that the arrow victims were slaughtered in an area where both populations operated.
What’s more, the period in which they perished so violently was one of huge competition for resources – for they appear to have been killed during a severe climatic downturn in which many water sources dried up, especially in summer time.
The climatic downturn – known as the Younger Dryas period – had been preceded by much lusher, wetter and warmer conditions which had allowed populations to expand. But when climatic conditions temporarily worsened during the Younger Dryas, water holes dried up, vegetation wilted and animals died or moved to the only major year-round source of water still available – the Nile.
Humans of all ethnic groups in the area were forced to follow suit – and migrated to the banks (especially the eastern bank) of the great river. Competing for finite resources, human groups would have inevitably clashed – and the current investigation is demonstrating the apparent scale of this earliest known substantial human conflict. (...)
To get the big picture of how warfare in the Stone Age / Neolithic period could look like - watch the video in my previous thread:
http://www.eupedia.com/forum/thread...one-Age-battle?p=475983&viewfull=1#post475983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BzqwOBneC4