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4,000-year-old human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees still has an arrowhead from a brutal attack

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, ...
Archaeology

Pierced Human Rib Bone Hints at 4,000-Year-Old Attack

ROC DE LES ORENTES, SPAIN—Millennia ago, a local community living high in the Catalan Pyrenees mountains near present-day Girona buried their dead in a cave over a period of two or three centuries.
Naples Daily News

Construction worker finds human remains in Naples; including jaw, ribs, skull

The Collier County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene and found multiple bones, including jaw fragments, a femur, possible ribs, and a skull fragment. The bones appeared to have been buried for ...
Smithsonian Magazine

An Archer Shot This Bronze Age Human in the Back. 4,000 Years Later, the Arrow Is Still Embedded in the Victim’s Rib Bone

This flint arrowhead was found embedded in a human rib at the Roc de les Orenetes site in northeastern Spain. Maria D. Guillén / IPHES-CERCA Some 4,000 years ago, an archer in the Pyrenees mountain ...