Archaeologists Discover Remains Of Ancient Farmers Who Fought Each Other To Death

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of ancient farmers who fought each other to death in Chile.

The farmers according to the scientists might have lived during the Neolithic transition between 1,000 BCE – 600 CE.

The skeletons were found as part of a study which evaluated the violence among the first horticulturalists in the Atacama desert in Northern Chile during the Neolithic transition between 1,000 BCE – 600 CE.

The remains show how the farmers lived in the dry heat of the desert, but also portray examples of violence with some of them even murdering each other.

According to the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, where the study was published, researchers said: “The emergence of elites and social inequality fostered interpersonal and inter-and intra-group violence associated with the defence of resources, socio-economic investments, and other cultural concerns”.

The study also suggested that violence was between local groups and that social and ecological constraints likely triggered violence within local communities.

Researchers believe the fights could have been over land, water and resources.

They wrote: “Some individuals exhibited severe high impact fractures of the cranium that caused massive destruction of the face and neurocranium, with craniofacial disjunction and outflow of brain mass.”

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