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Stone Age Women Endured Regular Violence

Stone Age farmers lived through routine violence, and women weren't spared from its toll, a new study finds.

The analysis discovered that up to 1 in 6 skulls exhumed in Scandinavia from the late Stone Age -- between about 6,000 and 3,700 years ago -- had nasty head injuries. And contrary to findings from mass grave sites of the period, women were equally likely to be victims of deadly blows, according to the study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.


 

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perhaps gives a view of constant violence?  

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Vision set out for remote isles

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A new management plan for the remote St Kilda archipelago is to be signed by a charity, public bodies and the Ministry of Defence.

National Trust for Scotland (NTS) said the document set out a vision for the islands for the next 20 to 30 years.

 

St Kilda, which lies 41 miles (66km) west of the Western Isles, is the UK's only natural and cultural Unesco World Heritage Site.

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