Cracked skull of 33,000 year old man proves he was 'violently beaten to death'
CSI Stone Age as 33,000-year-old murder mystery SOLVED – man ‘violently beaten to death with ancient bat’A COLD CASE mystery around a 33,000-year-old cracked skull has finally been solved: the man was violently murdered.
And they were able to pin down a specific scenario that seems most likely, with the results published in the PLOS ONE journal.It turns out that there were actually two injuries at or near the time of Paleolithic man's death.This was followed by a depressed fracture on the right side of the cranial vault – the part that encases and protects the brain.
The positioning of the blow that created the depressed fracture came from a "face-to-face confrontation".Analysis indicates that both injuries weren't the result of an accident, or damage after death.Paleolithic people would've used rudimentary stone-based tools and weapons, including bats, spears and bowsThe study claims that the fractures would've been fatal, but only the skull has been found – so bodily injuries that led to death "may have also been sustained".
"Our work shows that violent interpersonal behaviour and murder was also part of the behavioural repertoire of these early modern Europeans.
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