A 4,000-year-old human rib pierced with a flint arrowhead reveals that a violent attack unfolded high in the Pyrenees of Spain during the Early Bronze Age.
But the brutal trauma wasn't lethal, research finds. The individual survived, with the bone healing around the projectile injury, meaning they lived the rest of their life with the flint arrowhead embedded in their rib.
Archaeologists found the person's bone during recent excavations at a prehistoric burial site known as Roc de les Orenetes, in northeastern Spain, according to a July 8 statement from IPHES — the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution.
idkwhatimdoing @sh.itjust.works - 5mon
Cops still probably haven't figured out who did it ffs
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Quadhammer @lemmy.world - 5mon
Someone pull it out that will HAVE to feel good for that dead guy
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Nougat - 5mon
And that someone will be Lord of the Realm, KING OF ENGLAND!
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oce 🐆 - 5mon
According to preliminary research, based on calcification in the wrists and knees, he used to be an adventurer like you, then he took an arrow to the rib.
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Coldgoron @lemmy.zip - 5mon
What makes you think we are a violent species mr alien? “Gestures at this and a mountain worth of evidence.”
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swelter_spark @reddthat.com - 5mon
I wonder how long they lived after this happened, and how the wound was treated at the time.
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acockworkorange - 5mon
brutal
Based on what evidence? Could have been a hunting accident for all we know.
throws_lemy in archaeology
4,000-year-old human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees still has an arrowhead from a brutal attack
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/4-000-year-old-human-rib-discovered-high-in-the-pyrenees-still-has-an-arrowhead-from-a-brutal-attackCops still probably haven't figured out who did it ffs
Someone pull it out that will HAVE to feel good for that dead guy
And that someone will be Lord of the Realm, KING OF ENGLAND!
According to preliminary research, based on calcification in the wrists and knees, he used to be an adventurer like you, then he took an arrow to the rib.
What makes you think we are a violent species mr alien? “Gestures at this and a mountain worth of evidence.”
I wonder how long they lived after this happened, and how the wound was treated at the time.
Based on what evidence? Could have been a hunting accident for all we know.