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Iron Age warrior lived with arrowhead in spine
Live Science via Fox News ^
| 07.01.2015
| Laura Geggel
Posted on 07/01/2015 7:20:54 AM PDT by dware
A horrific spinal injury caused by a bronze arrowhead didn't immediately kill an Iron Age warrior, who survived long enough for his bone to heal around the metal point, a new study of his burial in central Kazakhstan finds.
"This found individual was extremely lucky to survive," said study researcher Svetlana Svyatko, a research fellow in the school of geography, archaeology and paleoecology at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. "It's hard to get a vertebral wound without damaging the main blood vessels, which would have resulted in an immediate death."
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Miscellaneous; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; belfast; godsgravesglyphs; ironage; kazakhstan; northernireland; queensuniversity; svetlanasvyatko; unitedkingdom
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:20:54 AM PDT
by
dware
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:21:10 AM PDT
by
dware
(Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
To: dware
I wonder if he was able to walk
To: Tennessee Nana
His bike riding days were over.
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:22:53 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
To: dware
At least he didn’t take an arrow in the knee.
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:24:10 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dware
The first recorded case of butthurt...
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:26:56 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
To: Norm Lenhart
He used to be an adventurer, but then he took a spear to the spine.
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:27:06 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We are exactly the same as the Democrats !!!")
To: dware
I wish republicans had spines that tough.
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:30:01 AM PDT
by
RetSignman
(Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
To: Lazamataz
Obviously a Democrat. He has a spine. He could not have been a Republican as they lack them, much less a metal reinforced one.
To: dware
Obviously an ancestor of Richard Matt.
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:30:39 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
To: dware
And the VA of the time turned him down for an appointment...
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:32:07 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: dware
James Garfield should have had this guy’s doctor.
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:32:18 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: dware
Custer wore Arrow shirts. But seriously, that must have been a horrible injury, I can’t imagine the pain.
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:32:37 AM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: 2banana
obamacare in action...just leave the spear in the spine
To: barbarianbabs
obamacare in action...just leave the spear in the spine Yeah, that'll buff out just fine.
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:36:18 AM PDT
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(Liars use facts when the truth doesn't suit their purposes.)
To: dware
About fifty years ago I remember reading of a dig in which fossils were found of a man with a stone tip point in his backbone. It was figured that death was instant.
To: RetSignman
I wish republicans had spines that tough.Post of the day!
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:39:25 AM PDT
by
dware
(Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
To: dware
"They found his grave, an elaborate burial mound called a "kurgan," after getting a tip from local people who live in the area."
Well, that explains it. You can't kill the Kurgan unless you chop his head off.
To: dware
Iron Age warrior lived with arrowhead in spine "You should have seen the other guy!"
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posted on
07/01/2015 7:49:11 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Who is John Galt?)
To: dware
“’Tis but a scratch. I’ve had worse.”
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