Blood Meridian contains an epigraph noting that in Ethiopia a fossilized skull was found that was 300,000 years old and had been scalped, suggesting that violent human non-human violence is not something new but is built into the human condition.
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Michael SugrueEvidence Quote
“one of them i'd like to talk about when we look at the end or the finish today the end of the book is it's a note from a newspaper that said that in ethiopia they had found a fossilized skull it was 300 000 years old and it had been scalped”
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:25:46 PM
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