The Jebel Sahaba victims are considered evidence of the world's oldest-known large-scale armed human conflict.
Notes on verification
Well-corroborated by multiple independent, high-quality sources including a peer-reviewed 2021 Scientific Reports reanalysis. Some nuance exists regarding whether the violence was a single battle or recurrent episodes over time, but the core claim of Jebel Sahaba representing the oldest known evidence of large-scale organized human conflict is widely supported.
Sources
- The Skeletons of Jebel Sahaba - Archaeology Magazine (archaeology.org)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01983-4 (nature.com)
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jebel-sahaba-cemetery-oldest-evidence-warfare-180977296/ (smithsonianmag.com)