Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Remains of ancient farmers who battered each other to death have been discovered in Chile.
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.
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