Earliest evidence of blood vengeance found in Jerusalem's hills
History's earliest evidence of blood vengeance in ancient times has been discovered in a cave in the Jerusalem hills.
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The cracks in the skull [Credit: Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority] |
The bones were identified by Dr. Yossi Nagar, an anthropologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), and the National Center for Forensic Medicine and Tel Aviv University's Dr. Haim Cohen as belonging to a man aged 25-40 years.
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The cave in the Judean Hills where the skull was found [Credit: Prof. Boaz Zissu, Bar-Ilan University] |
A morphological examination of the skull shows a great resemblance to the local Bedouin population, which apparently had a tradition of blood vengeance even before the birth of Islam. This is consistent with historical knowledge that in the period under discussion some 1,000 years ago, the Jerusalem hills were inhabited by a Bedouin population that came from Jordan and northern Arabia.
The findings of a joint study by the Israel Antiquities Authority, Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University will be presented on Tuesday at the 44th Archaeological Congress, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in cooperation with the Antiquities Authority and the Israel Exploration Society.
Source: Israel National News [May 17, 2018]
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