Lifestyle Glitz - Miscellany October 2016

E X C A V A T E D S K E L E T O N I N A U S T R A L I A
S U G G E S T S “ B O O M E R A N G S ” W E R E W A R
W E A P O N S
Countless excavations take place around
the world. For most archeologists, it’s all
about finding out more details about the
people that roamed the earth in previous
decades. They continuously hunt for signs
that could reveal how ancient civilizations
lived their life.
Initially, the discovery of the skeleton, and
the story wasn’t clear. Almost two years
ago, people spotted an aboriginal man’s
skeleton beside the Australian riverbank.
The skull had a long gash on it, indicating a
possible sword slash or death by a cutlass.
It could be that he was alive when the Europeans
were spreading across the region.
In history, those were turbulent years for
the people of Ausralia.
However, experts conducted numerous lab
tests, which show that the man’s death
was in the 1200s. This was 600 years before
the Europeans and their metallic war
tools reached this region. A new study earlier
reveals that the unprecedented injuries
came from a domestic weapon- the
“boomerang”.
A similar excavation program took place in
Australia to probe deeper into the lifestyle
of the ancient civilizations of Australia, and
this led to the discovery of a skeleton with
strange injuries. The injuries suggest that
the aboriginal people of this great country
fought deadly battles amongst themselves.
A P O S S I B L E “ V I C T I M ”
Experts who made this study argue that the
man was a probable victim of violence, a deliberate
act. The theory implies that most aboriginal
people in that period battled among
themselves. This brings the pre-colonial tribal
relationship of the people into the picture. A
subject that is less known in historical records.
The only skeleton predating to the colonial
times of Australia shows signs of deadly
injuries caused by other humans. The discovery
of that skeleton date back to the 1600
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