Atlantean Warfare in Egypt at the End of the Ice Age
The first race war? Scientists investigating after 13,000-year-old bodies are discovered on the edge of the Sahara
- Skeletons from first human massacre will be displayed at British Museum
- Remains from 11,000BC found in Jebel Sahaba cemetery in Sahara desert
- Scientists say mass murder caused by ‘environmental disaster’ of Ice Age
- At least 60 individuals found in excavation by American archaeologist
Humans remains of people killed 13,000 years ago in what scientists believe is the oldest identified race war, are today due to go on display at the British Museum in London.
Two skeletons from a massacre in the Sahara desert in 11,000BC, which killed at least 26 people, will be shown in the new Ancient Egypt gallery, alongside the flint-tipped weapons with which they were killed.
French scientists have been working with the museum to examine dozens of skeletons that were found grouped together in the Jebel Sahaba cemetery – one of the earliest organised burial grounds – on the east bank of the Nile, northern Sudan, in the 1960s.
Fighting probably broke out because of the environmental disaster of the Ice Age, which caused the attackers and victims to live together in a smaller area, the experts explained.
THE DISCOVERY AT JEBEL SAHABA CEMETERY
The graveyard is one of the earliest formal cemeteries in the world.
Prior to the discovery, only isolated graves, or clusters of up to three bodies had been known within the Nile Valley, experts at the British Museum write in a blog post.
Out of the 61 skeletons found buried at the site, at least 45 per cent of them died from inflicted wounds.
The remains are the earliest evidence for inter-communal violence in the archaeological record.
Fragments of arrows and weapons were found alongside the bodies – with some weapons embedded in the bones. Cut marks were also found on the bones.
Renee Friedman, the museum’s curator of early Egypt, told The Times that the attackers and victims were hunter-gatherers who usually avoided violence by moving on when a certain area became overcrowded.
She said: ‘Things were probably very tight, so we think that people started picking on one another.’
The museum acquired the remains in 2002 when they were donated by Fred Wendorf, an American archaeologist who excavated the site in the 1960s.
At least 60 individuals were found and examined using modern technology. One body was found with 39 pieces of flint from arrows and other flint-tipped weapons, Dr Friedman said.
Over the past two years, anthropologists from Bordeaux University have managed to find dozens of previously undetected conflict marks on the victims’ bones.
The British Museum scientists are now planning to research more about the victims themselves, including their gender, their age and their diet.
Meanwhile, according to The Independent, work carried out at Liverpool John Moores University, the University of Alaska and New Orleans’ Tulane University suggests these humans were part of the general sub-Saharan originating population, who were ancestors of modern Black Africans.
[The attackers were called Mediterranean Whites by excavators and they came down the Nile from the North-DD]
Dr. Daniel Antoine, a curator in the British Museum’s Ancient Egypt and Sudan Department, told the paper: ‘The skeletal material is of great importance – not only because of the evidence for conflict, but also because the Jebel Sahaba cemetery is the oldest discovered in the Nile valley so far.’
Ice Age glaciers covering much of Europe and North America at this time made the climate in Egypt and Sudan cold and arid, forcing people to live near the Nile.
But the river was either wild or low and sluggish.
There was little land on which people to live safely and resources were scarce.
Competition for food may have been the reason for the violence as more groups of people had to stake a claim on the best fishing spots and sites to live.
Two other cemeteries found nearby the main site suggest other social units, or small tribes, also considered the area their home and this may have caused friction.
But the remains buried in the other graveyards show no signs of violence. So people buried in ‘Cemetery 117’ were either unlucky, or the resting place was chosen for people who dies of battle wounds.
| The cemetery where the remains were discovered in the 1960s is one of the earliest organised burial grounds in the world and lies on the east bank of the Nile, northern Sudan (marked) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemetery_117
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_warfare
References
- http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/activities/documents/activity-173-2.pdf
- Kelly, Raymond (October 2005). “The evolution of lethal intergroup violence”. PNAS 102: 24–29. doi:10.1073/pnas.0505955102. PMC 1266108. PMID 16129826.
- Dawn of Ancient Warfare. Ancient Military History. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2691102/The-race-war-Scientists-investigating-13-000-year-old-bodies-discovered-edge-Sahara.html
- F. Wendorf, ‘Site 117: A Nubian Final Paleolithic Graveyard near Jebel Sahaba, Sudan’. In: F. Wendorf, Editor, The Prehistory of Nubia, Southern Methodist University, Dallas (1968), pp. 954–987.
[At the end of the Ice Age and during the Mesolithic we have two sites with clear evidence of invasion and massacre, one in Europe at Ofnet, Bavaria, and this one in the valley of the Nile. Both are associated with the same ethnic type of invaders that are elsewhere identified as Atlanteans. both of them are very telling.-DD]
REFERENCE
Source: http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2014/08/atlantean-warfare-in-egypt-at-end-of.html
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