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4,000-year-old human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees still has an arrowhead from a brutal attack (www.livescience.com)
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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 β€” the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution.

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[–] idkwhatimdoing@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cops still probably haven't figured out who did it ffs

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Someone pull it out that will HAVE to feel good for that dead guy

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago

And that someone will be Lord of the Realm, KING OF ENGLAND!

[–] oce@jlai.lu 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[–] Coldgoron@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

What makes you think we are a violent species mr alien? β€œGestures at this and a mountain worth of evidence.”

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2 points 4 days ago

I wonder how long they lived after this happened, and how the wound was treated at the time.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

brutal

Based on what evidence? Could have been a hunting accident for all we know.