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Interpersonal violence or hunting accident among the last hunter-gatherers? A flint projectile embed...

Interpersonal violence or hunting accident among the last hunter-gatherers? A flint projectile embed...

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Interpersonal violence or hunting accident among the last hunter-gatherers? A flint projectile embedded in a thoracic vertebra in the early Neolithic site of Tell Mureybet, Syria

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Interpersonal violence or hunting accident among the last hunter-gatherers? A flint projectile embedded in a thoracic vertebra in the early Neolithic site of Tell Mureybet, Syria

Publisher

CNRS

Journal title

Paléorient, 2017, Vol.43 (2), p.25-34

Language

English

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CNRS

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Contents

The site of Tell Mureybet in Syria yielded several human remains, partly dated from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8300-8200 BC), including a skeleton from an incomplete primary burial (grave 3) excavated in 1974. The study of the bones helps us to reconstruct the plausible cause of death, a thoraco-abdominal fatal wound caused by an arrow shot in th...

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Interpersonal violence or hunting accident among the last hunter-gatherers? A flint projectile embedded in a thoracic vertebra in the early Neolithic site of Tell Mureybet, Syria

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_01818476v1

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_01818476v1

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ISSN

0153-9345

E-ISSN

1957-701X

DOI

10.3406/paleo.2017.5764

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