Oldest battlefield discovered in Kenya »

Scientists have uncovered human fossils from a horrific slaughter on the shores of a lake, which they believe may be one of the oldest known examples of warfare. The 10,000 year-old find, at Nataruk near Lake Turkana in Kenya, included five skeletons with crushed skulls and five with seemingly fatal arrow injuries. Several people appear to have had their hands bound. One of the dead, an adult female, was heavily pregnant or had recently given birth and six children were found close to other adult women. None were buried. Instead they were found scattered and lying, sometimes face down, in lake mud. "It is a highly emotional find.