Thanks dware. It happened during the Iron Age, but the arrowhead was -- ironically -- bronze.
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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What’s the big deal??? In these LIB-infested times, we all live with a shaft in our nether-region.
Thanks dware. It happened during the Iron Age, but the arrowhead was -- ironically -- bronze.
OR “Shake it off” and get back to work - turning boulders into sand.
The other guy who shot him in the back said, “Hey buddy keep the tip”.
Maybe they had their version of problems making the change at YK-2000????
Impossible. We know from Leftists that our pre-industrial ancestors were gentle vegetarians who spent their time gathering flowers and folk-dancing.
:’D It was an abacus diaster!
It's obvious, then, that this particular poor vegetarian was clearly folk dancing, when a contingent of old, white European males appeared out of no where and promptly shot him with an arrow in true old, white European male style: in the back. #IronAgeLivesMatter
Speaking of time, what did you do with your extra leap second last night?
I put mine in a jar for when it is needed.
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