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Anthropology

Judi Lynn

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1. Knife-For-A-Hand Prosthesis Found With 1,400-Year-Old Skeleton

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 10:53 PM

Apr 2018

Aliyah Kovner
By Aliyah Kovner
12 APR 2018, 23:43

In the horror-camp classic Evil Dead II, the main character cuts off his own hand and later attaches a chainsaw in its place before he is magically transported to Middle Age Europe.

A case report by Italian archaeologists now implies that around 1,400 years ago, a real man pulled a (tenuously) similar stunt.

As described in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences, a skeleton unearthed from the famous Veneto-region Longobard cemetery bears evidence that the individual not only survived for years after amputation of his right forearm, he also regularly used a strapped-on, knife-tipped prosthesis.

No, really.

More:
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/knifeforahand-prosthesis-found-with-1400yearold-skeleton/

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Medieval Italian Man Replaced His Amputated Hand With a Knife [View all] Judi Lynn Apr 2018 OP

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