Things were different back then.
Posted on 11/17/2012 6:45:28 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Daniel Antoine, the museum's expert on human remains, told The Times: ..."The force is such that the blade would have penetrated through his lung."
...Examinations also showed he was a young man, aged between just 18 and 20 when he was killed, and impressively muscled.
Mr Antoine said he believes a lack of defensive wounds suggest Ginger was the victim of a surprise attack.
A blade of copper or sharpened flint at least 5in long and 0.7in wide made the injury, he said...
Professor Anders Persson of the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), a Forensic Radiology expert, who also uses the virtual autopsy system for criminal and accident cases in Sweden, confirmed the British Museum's assessment that the force of the blow was such that it also shattered the rib immediately below the shoulder blade, embedding bone fragments into his muscle tissue, and injuring the left lung and surrounding blood vessels.
The absence of any signs of healing and the severity of the injuries suggest that this can be considered the cause of death.
The body, the London museum's most popular attraction after the Rosetta Stone, has rarely been moved since first being put on display in 1901.
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Because his parents gave him a girl's name, he was taunted by the other boys and became hyper-macho in order to be able to beat up anyone who made fun of his name. It says he was impressively muscled.
Caught by surprise and stabbed in the back? Probably stabbed by the husband of a woman he had seduced, who caught them in flagrante delicto.
Yup. I would suppose that would better explain the force capable of shattering the ribs around the wound... And the distance provides for why there are no defensive wounds, albeit that it does not eliminate the 'surprise' factor. What is left to wonder about is whether the spear was thrust or thrown.
Since red hair is not typically associated with Egypt/Africa, I wonder if Ginger may have suffered from Kwashiokor.
The disease affects Malnourished people and often displays symptoms of a change in hair color to a reddish color.
Mary Ann...(Dawn Wells and Tina Lousie never were friends on the show.)
“He’s the greatest lumberjack of all time. He just got back from the Sahara Forest.”
“You mean the Sahara desert?”
“Sure, now...”
One of the most vivid images I have in my brain is something I saw 30 years ago in Tanzania.While driving with a tour group to a National Park...on an astoundingly desolate road...we'd see people selling corn on the side of the road.I assume their intended customers were the tour guides (who were probably locals...ours were) rather than the tourists.Our guide stopped to talk to one,presumably negotiating a price.With the woman was a young child,as thin as those people you see in those concentration camp liberation photos,with red hair (more orange,actually),little stick legs and a hugely distended stomach.I gave the woman a $20 bill (didn't have any Tanzanian currency on me) and a couple of Germans gave her money too.That image will stay with me 'till I draw my last breath.
Saw a program about an African tribe whose members' lives were centered around cattle. Some of them had red hair, which they created by soaking their hair with cow urine.
Red highlights in the hair are a sign of malnutrition.
I was always suspicious of the Skipper and his 'little buddy."
Things were different back then.
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