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Late Pleistocene cemetery on the east bank of the Nile in what is now northern Sudan, designated Cemetery 117 by its excavators. Jebel Sahaba (Cemetery 117) was excavated in 1965–1966 by Fred Wendorf during the UNESCO salvage campaign ahead of Lake Nasser flooding. The cemetery contains 61 individuals — men, women, and children — buried in shallow pits, with at least 41 percent of the skeletons showing embedded stone projectile points or cut marks consistent with violent death. Radiocarbon dating originally placed the site around 13,000 years before present; revised analysis by Isabelle Crevecoeur and the Bordeaux team in 2021 confirmed the date and re-examined the wounds, identifying many as healed injuries indicating repeated raids rather than a single massacre. The skeletal remains are now held at the British Museum.
The oldest cemetery on the Nile is also the oldest direct evidence for organised human violence yet recovered.