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Reminds me of a local story - a 200 year old tree fell in a storm and pulled up a 1000 year old murder victim as the roots had grown through his corpse
by roryisok 8y ago
Reminds me of a local story - a 200 year old tree fell in a storm and pulled up a 1000 year old murder victim as the roots had grown through his corpse
- umvi 8y agoAnd how the heck can they determine a 1000 year old skeleton is a murder victim?
- dharmon 8y agoNot sure if you are asking in earnest, but bone damage from a knife would suggest the skeleton was from a murder victim. They can tell skeletons significantly older than 1000 years were from someone, for example, killed by a tiger, due to teeth marks on bones.
- dvlsg 8y agoSaw an interesting viking museum in Norway that had a skeleton of a man who had his leg shorn off by an axe in battle. That one may be a bit more obvious I suppose, but I suspect there's a ton you can learn from just a set of bones.
- chadcmulligan 8y agoYou could probably make a tv show about that, maybe call it bones :-)
- lnsp 8y agoMost likely bone fractures and similar signs should still be visible.
- roryisok 8y agoBlade markings on the bones, rib cage I believe. They were also able to say the victim was 17-20 years old
- maimeowmeow 8y agoBut it could have been decorative markings on a skeleton for halloween, only 1000 years prior.
- gglanzani 8y agoMaybe as people who were not murdered were buried in some sort of burial site? (Like a cemetery).
- Trill-I-Am 8y ago“Police in Connecticut say that a tree overturned by hurricane Sandy has revealed a skeleton buried beneath that may have been there since colonial times. ‘Yes,’ said the home’s owner, ‘colonial times...’” -Weekend Update, Saturday Night Live, December 1, 2012 http://decoy.tvpassport.com/talk/late-laughs-week-november-25-december-1-2012 http://decoy.tvpassport.com/talk/late-laughs-week-november-2...
- newnewpdro 8y agoUprooted trees are gold mines for people interested in finding objects like arrowheads or other historic artifacts. It's a natural time capsule. The ground under the tree is stabilized for the duration of the tree's life, effectively snapshotting its contents. The first time someone explained this to me while on a hike, as they excitedly dug through a mess of exposed tree roots, was one of those rare, surreal perspective-shifting moments. Suddenly I saw the forest surrounding me as a versioned filesystem of sorts, with every tree holding a snapshot of ground for its respective age beneath.