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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Man from 100,000 years ago may be earliest victim of stabbing in face

A jaw injury on a human fossil from about 100,000 years ago could be the earliest evidence of a person taking a potentially fatal stab wound to the face, archaeologists revealed in a new study.

Violence is one of the most challenging aspects of the human past to reconstruct as the precise cause of an injury in skeletal remains often cannot be determined.

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