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Was this man murdered 33,000 years ago?
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Updated 1807 GMT (0207 HKT) July 3, 2019
In 1941, a human skull was unearthed during mining in Romanian cave, along with stone tools and cave bear fossils. The 33,000-year-old discovery became one of the earliest dated and well-preserved modern humans from Europe.
Dubbed Cioclovina calvaria -- for the cave where it was found and the Latin word for "skull" -- the fossil shed light on Europe's early modern humans.
Analysis revealed that the skull belonged to a man, but even though it has been well-studied, questions remained about how he died.
A line fracture can be seen at the base of the skull, as well as a caving fracture on the right side. The semicircular depressed fracture had a radius of 1.4 inches and could only have been produced by a rounded object.
Researchers decided to reassess trauma visible on the skull to determine how it might have happened and whether it was fatal. From observations alone, it looked like the results of blunt force trauma.
Continued with several illustrations:
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/03/health/paleolithic-skull-violent-death-scn-trnd/index.html
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Updated 1807 GMT (0207 HKT) July 3, 2019
In 1941, a human skull was unearthed during mining in Romanian cave, along with stone tools and cave bear fossils. The 33,000-year-old discovery became one of the earliest dated and well-preserved modern humans from Europe.
Dubbed Cioclovina calvaria -- for the cave where it was found and the Latin word for "skull" -- the fossil shed light on Europe's early modern humans.
Analysis revealed that the skull belonged to a man, but even though it has been well-studied, questions remained about how he died.
A line fracture can be seen at the base of the skull, as well as a caving fracture on the right side. The semicircular depressed fracture had a radius of 1.4 inches and could only have been produced by a rounded object.
Researchers decided to reassess trauma visible on the skull to determine how it might have happened and whether it was fatal. From observations alone, it looked like the results of blunt force trauma.
Continued with several illustrations:
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/03/health/paleolithic-skull-violent-death-scn-trnd/index.html