5,500-Year-Old Wooden Clubs Were Deadly Weapons

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By Megan Gannon, Live Science Contributor | December 8, 2017 08:31am ET

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The striker administered two types of blows: the pommel strike and the double-handed strike. The arrows show the direction of his swing.
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How do you solve a Stone Age murder mystery? First, identify the weapon.

Archaeologists in the United Kingdom are turning to forensic methods to understand violence in the Neolithic period.

In experiments described in the journal Antiquity yesterday (Dec. 7), researchers used a replica of a 5,500-year-old wooden club to see what kind of damage they could inflict on a model of a human head. They found that such clubs were indeed lethal weapons. [7 Bizarre Ancient Cultures That History Forgot]

Stone Age conflict

Archaeologists have found ample evidence of violence in Western and Central Europe during the Neolithic period, through burials of people who had skull fractures—some healed, some were fatal —from an intentional blow to the head. But it was often unclear where these injuries came from.

More:
https://www.livescience.com/61140-prehistoric-wooden-club-weapons.html

[msongs]

1. lets hope no taxpayer funds were used to show hitting someone on the head could cause damage nt

[SCantiGOP]

2. Follow up study:

Wooden clubs are still deadly weapons.

Can I get a big grant to finish my research?

On edit: I’ll also need a group of Trump
Voters to use as the research sample.