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Human Evolution1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus face was just reconstructed — and its mix of old and new traits is complicating the picture of human evolutionEerie 'sand burials' of elite Anglo-Saxons and their 'sacrificed' horse discovered near UK nuclear power plant Reconstruction of the burial of"Il Principe," a hunter-gatherer teenager who likely died after being mauled by a bear nearly 28,000 years ago. Nearly 28,000 years ago, a teenage boy was buried with care in a cave in what is now northern Italy, a spectacular shell cap covering his head and a flint blade grasped in his right hand. Archaeologists have now determined his cause of death: a, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Cagliari in Sardinia, told Live Science in an email."We know that these people hunted bears and that bears tend to avoid humans whenever they can, but a fortuitous encounter is still possible." To solve a mystery straight out of CSI: Stone Age, Sparacello and colleagues examined the skeletal remains of the boy — originally excavated from the Arene Candide cave in Liguria in 1942 and nicknamed"Il Principe" — for microscopic clues to his untimely demise. They published their findings in the Brutal lion attack 6,200 years ago severely injured teenager — but somehow he survived, skeleton found in Bulgaria revealsNeanderthals cannibalized 'outsider' women and children 45,000 years ago at cave in Belgium When the Prince was found more than 80 years ago, excavators immediately suspected he had suffered a significant traumatic event around the time of his death because of widespread damage to the bones of his left shoulder area, neck and lower jaw. But no official analysis of the skeleton was ever published, and the Prince's body was reassembled, glued together and put on display in the Recently, the researchers obtained permission from the museum to remove bones from the display one at a time so that they could look at them under magnification. They also took photographs and made 3D surface models of some of the bones. After carefully analyzing the images, the researchers concluded that the young teenage forager had suffered massive shoulder and facial trauma around the time of his death, just as the original excavators had suggested. But their analysis also revealed damage that pointed to a bear attack. One linear mark on the left side of the boy's skull, found underneath the cap of shells, measured 0.4 inches long. It occurred around the time of his death, and its shape is consistent with a claw swipe. And on the boy's right ankle, the researchers found a teardrop-shaped depression that also occurred around the time of his death and was made by a cone-shaped object such as a tooth.Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox.Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors"Overall, when considering the nature and pattern of the most obvious lesions, they depict a realistic scenario of fatal mauling by a large carnivore," the researchers wrote in the study. Given the animals commonly found in Late Pleistocene archaeological sites in Italy and the pattern of injuries, the Prince was likely attacked by either a brown bear . New signs of skeletal trauma in the Upper Paleolithic “Principe” from Arene Candide Cave bear novel insights into the circumstances of his death. Journal of Anthropological Sciences Reports, 103, 113-139. Kristina Killgrove is a staff writer at Live Science with a focus on archaeology and paleoanthropology news. Her articles have also appeared in venues such as Forbes, Smithsonian, and Mental Floss. Kristina holds a Ph.D. in biological anthropology and an M.A. in classical archaeology from the University of North Carolina, as well as a B.A. in Latin from the University of Virginia, and she was formerly a university professor and researcher. She has received awards from the Society for American Archaeology and the American Anthropological Association for her science writing.'I had never seen a skull like this before': Medieval Spanish knight who died in battle had a rare genetic condition, study finds
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