Lethal Interpersonal Violence in the Middle Pleistocene

Nohemi Sala; Juan Luis Arsuaga; Ana Pantoja-Pérez; Adrián Pablos; Ignacio Martínez; Rolf M. Quam; Asier Gómez-Olivencia; José María Bermúdez de Castro; Eudald Carbonell

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126589

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Lethal Interpersonal Violence in the Middle Pleistocene

Nohemi Sala ,

* E-mail: nsala@isciii.es

Affiliation Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, Madrid, Spain
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Juan Luis Arsuaga,

Affiliations Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, Madrid, Spain, Departamento de Paleontología, Facultad Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Ana Pantoja-Pérez,

Affiliation Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, Madrid, Spain
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Adrián Pablos,

Affiliations Área de Antropología Física, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, Madrid, Spain
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Ignacio Martínez,

Affiliations Área de Antropología Física, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, Madrid, Spain
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Rolf M. Quam,

Affiliations Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, Madrid, Spain, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, New York, United States of America, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America
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Asier Gómez-Olivencia,

Affiliations Departamento Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Bilbao, Spain, IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain, Équipe de Paléontologie Humaine, Département de Préhistoire, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France, Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, Madrid, Spain
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José María Bermúdez de Castro,

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, Burgos, Spain
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Eudald Carbonell

Affiliations Àrea de Prehistòria, Departamento d’Història i Història de l’Art, Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of Beijing, Beijing, China
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Lethal Interpersonal Violence in the Middle Pleistocene

Nohemi Sala,
Juan Luis Arsuaga,
Ana Pantoja-Pérez,
Adrián Pablos,
Ignacio Martínez,
Rolf M. Quam,
Asier Gómez-Olivencia,
José María Bermúdez de Castro,
Eudald Carbonell

Published: May 27, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126589

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Here we report the earliest evidence of lethal interpersonal violence in the hominin fossil record Posted by janliebe on 28 May 2015 at 19:26 GMT
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Not interpersonal violence, but simply a combination of wetland dwelling + geological processes? Posted by marc_verhaegen on 01 Jun 2015 at 23:11 GMT

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