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It doesn't make sense to me, why did the bodies only have wounds on the head and shoulders ? It seems intuitive that you protect your head with your hands and
by pingou 13y ago
It doesn't make sense to me, why did the bodies only have wounds on the head and shoulders ?
It seems intuitive that you protect your head with your hands and arms, as sudden as the hailstorm may have been, and once they collapsed to the ground their whole bodies should have been hit (although I guess their clothes could have protected them a bit) ?
- Ma8ee 13y agoMy guess is that those are the only wounds that are visible on the bone. On most of the rest of the body the bones are protected by soft tissue.
- pingou 13y agoMaybe but I don’t think there’s that much soft tissue protecting the hands. Maybe they were stoned, then digged up for some reason? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning That would explain why there wasn’t any survivor able to come back later to bury her comrades (if you curl you up I’m not sure how a hailstorm could be lethal to everyone in a big group)
- Ma8ee 13y agoI think that it is probably hard to find enough hand bones to piece together to determine if they have been hit by something big and blunt after this many years.