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===Early warfare===
Evidence of a precursor to warfare has been found at [[Nataruk]] in Kenya. Remains of at least 27 individuals have been found and dated to 7550–8550 BC.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=00280836&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA440918913&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs|title=Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya|first1=M. Mirazon|last1=Lahr|first2=F.|last2=Rivera|first3=R. K.|last3=Power|first4=A.|last4=Mounier|first5=B.|last5=Copsey|first6=F.|last6=Crivellaro|first7=J. E.|last7=Edung|first8=J. M. Maillo|last8=Fernandez|first9=C.|last9=Kiarie|first10=J.|last10=Lawrence|first11=A.|last11=Leakey|first12=E.|last12=Mbua|first13=H.|last13=Miller|first14=A.|last14=Muigai|first15=D. M.|last15=Mukhongo|first16=A. Van|last16=Baelen|first17=R.|last17=Wood|first18=J.-L.|last18=Schwenninger|first19=R.|last19=Gran|first20=H.|last20=Achyuthan|first21=A.|last21=Wilshaw|first22=R. A.|last22=Foley|date=21 January 2016|journal=Nature|volume=529|issue=7586|pages=394–411|doi=10.1038/nature16477 |pmid=26791728 |bibcode=2016Natur.529..394L |accessdate=26 March 2023|via=go.gale.com}}</ref> The condition of the skeletons indicates that a massacre took place as hands were bound and skulls were smashed by blunt force. Communities in Africa at the time would have been nomadic hunter-gatherers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-brutal-massacre-may-be-earliest-evidence-war-180957884/ |last=Handwerk |first=Brian |title=An Ancient, Brutal Massacre May Be the Earliest Evidence of War |work=Smithsonian Magazine |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |location=Washington, DC |date=20 January 2016 |access-date=22 July 2020}}</ref>