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A Pre-Columbian Wound

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Rogger Ravines
Rogger Ravines*
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Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Abstract

A broken obsidian projectile point embedded in a human second lumbar vertebra has been found near Yauli in the central highlands of Peru. The point resembles those used on the south coast of Peru during the later part of the Early Intermediate period and probably dates to this time. The victim indubitably died immediately from this wound as a result of hemorrhaging.

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Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 230 - 231
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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