Posted on 01/31/2026 7:47:31 AM PST by BenLurkin
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 Ligurian Archaeological Museum shortly after World War II.
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 (10 millimeters) 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
In those day’s, he wasn’t a “teenager”.
He would have been a “Middle-Aged Man”.
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Tonight they’re gonna party like it’s 1999 BC.
Hey, I can be a scientist, too. Or a historian... Just lie...đ
Good question.
All of the above...
Only in the sense of high mortality due to the conditions of the times. A caveman that for whatever reason lived a risk-free relatively healthy life probably could have lived near the ages we live today. Overall, though, yes: because of dangerous conditions, lack of modern healthcare and warfare, life was nasty, brutish, and short.
Big bear chase me!
precisely.
Some days you get the bear and some days the bear gets you.
LOL!
Get a Maverick 88 in 20 gauge.
This a sad cautionary tail in a time of tails, you should not sneak out of the cave after dark....See Ogg got eaten........
Might well have been a Short Faced Bear - about 2x a polar bear, stood 14 feet on hind legs.
LOL!
Is it possible that the movie poster was taking liberties with the truth?!
Regards,
Now we know why captions are the last to leave the boat.
That literally made me laugh aloud! Excellent...just excellent!
That cartoon is brilliant...I have seen that now dozens of time and I still laugh every single time I see it!
"Brown fight back, Black get down... Wait..."
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