Study Suggests Climate Change Was Killing Off Civilizations 13,000 Years Ago

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Study suggests climate change was killing people 13,000 years ago



Scientists say battle wounds mean people were fighting over resources

A study published in Nature  is suggesting that climate change was at least partly responsible for  the deaths of dozens of people found in an ancient burial ground in the  Nile Valley.  Today, environmentalists argue that the use of fossil fuels and lack  of conservation is to blame for climate change, but SUVs reportedly were in scarce supply in this case.  The study, which looked again at the well-known Jebel Sahaba cemetery  site in the Nile Valley, which dates to the late Pleistocene period,  concluded many of those found buried there died of injuries. "Territorial and environmental pressures triggered by climate changes  are most probably responsible for these frequent conflicts between what  appears to be culturally distinct Nile Valley semi-sedentary  hunter-fisher-gatherers groups," the study said.

  The cemetery holds the remains of 61 people, and it was excavated in the 1960s. "Over 100 previously undocumented healed and unhealed lesions were  identified on both new and/or previously identified victims, including  several embedded lithic artefacts. Most trauma appears to be the result  of projectile weapons and new analyses confirm for the first time the  repetitive nature of the interpersonal acts of violence," the study  found. "Indeed, a quarter of the skeletons with lesions exhibit both healed  and unhealed trauma. We dismiss the hypothesis that Jebel Sahaba  reflects a single warfare event, with the new data supporting sporadic  and recurrent episodes of inter-personal violence, probably triggered by  major climatic and environmental changes."

It will always be nature vs us

Originally the victims were thought to all be from one huge battle,  but the study finds that they probably were buried following a series of conflicts. "Now scientists have discovered new evidence that the people buried  at Jebal Sahaba survived several violent assaults throughout their  lives, lending credence to the idea that these hunter-fisher-gatherers  battled other groups as natural resources dwindled amid a drastically  changing climate," the report said. It explained the culture at the time had people watering and caring for wild grasses and grains that they harvested. "But a drastic change in temperature put unbearable pressure on the  animals, fish and plants they and other groups relied on, leading to  inevitable conflict in the fight for survival," ...

Study suggests climate change was killing people 13,000 years ago
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