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News: Underwater caves off Yucatan yield three old skeletons—remains date to 11,000 B.C.
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The Amesbury Archer: The King Of Stonehenge?

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« on: July 12, 2008, 01:59:55 pm »



Flint Arrowheads







Grave contents



Behind the man's back lay a Beaker pot, boars' tusks and a cache of flints, which were mainly used - and sometimes broken - tools. With them was a black stone, a so-called cushion stone (named after its similarity to some sofa cushions), which was a metalworker's tool. At this time gold and copper were new and exotic materials, just coming into use in Britain.

'...a quiver of hafted arrows had been scattered over his lower body.'

There were many more items - including beakers, boars' tusks, an antler spatula for working flints, another copper knife and more flints - these would have been tools, some in mint condition. Around the archer's waist and legs were 15 arrowheads, suggesting that a quiver of hafted arrows had been scattered over his lower body and legs, but the bow had long since rotted away.At his knees were another sandstone wristguard, a third copper knife, a shale belt ring and two gold 'earrings'.

These finds suggest that some pieces of costume or regalia were placed in the grave by the body rather
than on or over it.

While most of the objects in the grave come from nearby, the objects by his knees come from farther afield.

Chemical analysis of the knife shows that the metal came from Spain, and the gold could be from continental Europe too. The source of the sandstone is over 50 km away and the shale comes from Kimmeridge, which is a similar distance.
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