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'It was probably some kind of an ambush': 17,000 years ago, a man died in a projectile weapon attack in what is now Italy

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A Stone Age hunter-gatherer was hit by flint-tipped projectiles around 17,000 years ago .

He died from a bloody ambush in what is now Italy , a new study finds.

The discovery is some of the earliest evidence of "projectile impact marks" in the human paleobiological record.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440316000078https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06979-9https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-94095-xhttps://web.unica.it/unica/page/it/vitale_sparacellohttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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