I would also add that research is always ongoing as new finds appear, old finds are re-assessed and especially as new technologies become more available and used. They found an undiscovered bronze age burial site in Greece just last year in a place known to archaeologists for decades.
Reassessments of current finds can also dramatically change our understanding of what we are looking at.
It has always amazed me that they missed the famous Ice-Man Ötzi's manner of death for about ten years as the technology used to discover what happened to him was already available! Far from simply freezing to death alone on a mountaintop, he went out like a warrior fighting with a comrade at his side.
"In 2001 X-rays and a CT scan revealed that Ötzi had an arrowhead lodged in his left shoulder when he died,[60] and a matching small tear on his coat.[61] The discovery of the arrowhead prompted researchers to theorize Ötzi died of blood loss from the wound, which would probably have been fatal even if modern medical techniques had been available.[62] Further research found that the arrow's shaft had been removed before death, and close examination of the body found bruises and cuts to the hands, wrists and chest and cerebral trauma indicative of a blow to the head. One of the cuts was to the base of his thumb that reached down to the bone but had no time to heal before his death. Currently, it is believed that the cause of death was a blow to the head, but researchers are unsure of what inflicted the fatal injury.[63]
Recent DNA analyses claim they revealed traces of blood from at least four other people on his gear: one from his knife, two from the same arrowhead, and a fourth from his coat.[64][65] Interpretations of these findings were that Ötzi killed two people with the same arrow, and was able to retrieve it on both occasions, and the blood on his coat was from a wounded comrade he may have carried over his back.[61] Ötzi's posture in death (frozen body, face down, left arm bent across the chest) could support a theory that before death occurred and rigor mortis set in, the Iceman was turned onto his stomach in the effort to remove the arrow shaft.[66]"
Why not staples AND glue?
Reassessments of current finds can also dramatically change our understanding of what we are looking at.
It has always amazed me that they missed the famous Ice-Man Ötzi's manner of death for about ten years as the technology used to discover what happened to him was already available! Far from simply freezing to death alone on a mountaintop, he went out like a warrior fighting with a comrade at his side.
"In 2001 X-rays and a CT scan revealed that Ötzi had an arrowhead lodged in his left shoulder when he died,[60] and a matching small tear on his coat.[61] The discovery of the arrowhead prompted researchers to theorize Ötzi died of blood loss from the wound, which would probably have been fatal even if modern medical techniques had been available.[62] Further research found that the arrow's shaft had been removed before death, and close examination of the body found bruises and cuts to the hands, wrists and chest and cerebral trauma indicative of a blow to the head. One of the cuts was to the base of his thumb that reached down to the bone but had no time to heal before his death. Currently, it is believed that the cause of death was a blow to the head, but researchers are unsure of what inflicted the fatal injury.[63]
Recent DNA analyses claim they revealed traces of blood from at least four other people on his gear: one from his knife, two from the same arrowhead, and a fourth from his coat.[64][65] Interpretations of these findings were that Ötzi killed two people with the same arrow, and was able to retrieve it on both occasions, and the blood on his coat was from a wounded comrade he may have carried over his back.[61] Ötzi's posture in death (frozen body, face down, left arm bent across the chest) could support a theory that before death occurred and rigor mortis set in, the Iceman was turned onto his stomach in the effort to remove the arrow shaft.[66]"
(07-13-2017, 10:34 PM)Dan Howard Wrote: You mean like the apparent staples on Todd's illustration, the description of them in the Iliad, and the physical staples found at Knossos?Oh I don't doubt the staples idea at all.
Why not staples AND glue?
Joe Balmos
