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A handout photo provided by Nature on January 19, 2016 shows a detail of the skull of skeleton KNM-WT 71255 in situ. This skeleton was that of a man, found lying prone in the lagoon's sediments. The skull has multiple lesions on the front and on the left side, consistent with woundsfrom a blunt implement, such as a club. About 10,000 years ago, a small band of prehistoric men, women and children were captured by a rival clan and executed – tied up, shot with arrows, and beaten to death. Their shattered remains fell into a lagoon, and were preserved in sediment for millennia, only now to emerge as proof of the oldest known human massacre. Unearthed at Nataruk, near Kenya's Lake Turkana, the battered bones provide “conclusive evidence of something that must have been an intergroup conflict”, Cambridge University anthropologist Marta Mirazon Lahr explained. (Photo by Marta Mirazon Lahr and Fabio Lahr/AFP Photo/Nature)
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