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, ...
After being shot with an arrow, the victim's rib bone grew around the foreign object. Archaeologists uncovered the rib and its accompanying arrowhead at the Roc de les Orenetes archaeological site.
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.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A rib bone sent to the University of North Texas' Center for Human Identification in December was definitively identified as Caleb Harris'. The Nueces County Medical Examiner's ...