This week I have a close-up of something to identify, that would be a bit too obvious if I showed you the whole thing:
It’s something I have a bit of a soft spot for, so I’m interested to see if it’s as distinctive for anyone else as it is for me! I hope you have fun with it.
This is an intermediate range gunshot entrance wound in which there is powder “tattooing” around the entrance site. Tattooing is the term used to refer to the abrasions seen when epithelial tissues comes into contact with grains of gunpowder, and it is pathognomonic of an intermediate range gunshot wound.
The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Onyx marble, pyrite, shell
Replica of the Luzia Woman’s skull at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Luzia was discovered in 1974 in a rock shelter near Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and represented one of the earliest sets of human remains discovered in the Americas. Her remains have been dated to between 11,243-11,710 BCE. There was some controversy over her origin, as her facial features were considered dissimilar to Native Americans. Many suggested that she had affinities with Aboriginal Australians, Southeast Asians, and Melanesians. However, it has been demonstrated that she has affinities with the Aimoré people of Brazil and a 2018 study showed she had features more similar to Asians through DNA sequencing.
The real Luzia was kept at the National Museum of Brazil, which was largely destroyed in a fire on September 2nd, 2018. In October some of her remains were recovered, albeit in a damaged, fragmented state. There are future plans to reconstruct the surviving remains.
The Prebilovci massacre was a mass murder that occurred in the Independent State of Croatia during the second world war ,committed by the croatian ustaše. On the 6th of August 1941 the ustaše killed 600 women and children by throwing them, still alive, into the Golubinka pit.
The massacre began in the village of Prebilovci itself, with the ustaše targeting young children, holding infants by the feet and dashing their heads against the walls of the school to kill them. They then drove the women and children prisoners they had captured to the local cave formations. Golubinka was one of these caves, and the ustaše took small groups of prisoners to this cave, pushing them down into the depths - with an initial vertical drop of 27m, followed by a steep slope that measure 100m in height. 300 children and infants were thought to have been killed that day alone, having been tossed into the air before falling into the pit.
In 1990 the Golubinka pit was opened for serbian priests to hold a memorial service over the remains of the victims. In total 1550 remnants were removed from the pit and, combined with the remains found in other local caves, 4000 bodies were recovered.
Excavation work led by the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute team has unearthed a large urban villa dating back to the early New Kingdom, about 1500-1450 B.C.E. The findings at the site of Tell Edfu in southern Egypt include a large hall containing a rare and well-preserved example of a domestic shrine dedicated to family ancestors.
“It has been more than 80 years since such a shrine for the ancestors was discovered in Egypt, and the ones we did have were rarely within an undisturbed context,” said Nadine Moeller, associate professor of Egyptian archaeology at UChicago, who leads the Tell Edfu Project excavation with Oriental Institute research associate Gregory Marouard.
Located about 400 miles south of Cairo in the Nile Valley, the ancient city of Tell Edfu was a provincial capital occupied for nearly 3,000 years. The archaeological fieldwork has excavated settlement remains and monuments from Egypt’s Old Kingdom (ca. 2400 B.C.E.) Read more.
The Celtic Prince of Glauberg, Germany, La Tène period, ca. 500 BC. The life sized sandstone sculpture depicts a male warrior wearing composite armour tunic, wooden shield and a typical La Tène sword hanging from his right side [2348 x 3692]
The shattered skull of a hunter who lived about 8,000 years ago isn’t evidence of cannibalism, as scientists previously thought. Rather, the hunter died in a grisly murder, new research suggests.
Although the ancient skull, found in what is now Poland, is severely damaged, a new analysis revealed that the skull showed signs of healing, meaning that the man likely lived a little more than a week after his injury.
“It turned out that the damaged skull shows traces of healing that can not be seen with the naked eye,” Jacek Tomczyk, a physical anthropologist at the University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński in Warsaw, told the news website Science in Poland. “This means that the person did not die at the moment when the impact occurred, which also destroys the archaeologists’ belief that we are dealing with a victim of cannibalism.” Read more.
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