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Who mortally wounded this man with a quartz projectile 12,000 years ago? Nobody knows.

Who mortally wounded this man with a quartz projectile 12,000 years ago? Nobody knows.

Rob Beschizza
Aug 29, 2025
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Who mortally wounded this man with a quartz projectile 12,000 years ago? Nobody knows.
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A. Wilshaw/C.M. Stimpson/Stimpson et al. 2025

Researchers examining a well-preserved human skeleton recently excavated in Vietnam concluded that the man was about 35 years old when he died some 12,000 years ago and was mortally injured by a projectile tipped with quartz. The quartz shows signs of "human workmanship" and the skeleton shows signs of recove…

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