US EditionA Fractured Rib on a 12,000-Year-Old Skeleton Provides Insights Into Violence in Ancient Vietnam
The quartz-tipped arrow likely caused an infected rib fracture that led to death, providing possible early evidence of interpersonal violence in ancient Southeast Asia, researchers say.
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Archaeologists believe that they have found the oldest evidence of violence in Southeast Asia, with a 12,000-year-old skeleton and a mysterious arrowhead playing a role.
A fractured rib on a 12,000-year-old skeleton provides insights into violence in ancient Vietnam
Scientists have found what they believe may be the earliest evidence of violence in Southeast Asia. Studies of a 12,000-year-old skeleton of a man, discovered in Vietnam, reveal he was shot by an arrow with a quartz tip. However, it wasn't the injury that finished him off. He likely died of a subsequent infection, according to a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Analysis of a 12,000-year-old Vietnamese skeleton shows the man was wounded by a quartz arrowhead. He survived the injury, but the infection killed him—it may be the earliest evidence of prehistoric violence in Southeast Asia.
Earliest evidence of interpersonal violence: quartz projectile killed a man 12,000 years ago in Vietnam
Archaeologists excavating in northern Vietnam have uncovered rare evidence of violent conflict in prehistoric Southeast Asia. The skeleton of a male, dating to about 12,000 years ago, reveals that he had been struck by a projectile tipped with a stone point. Although he survived the initial attack, the wound eventually became fatally infected, researchers reported […]
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