A team of researchers led by Oxford archaeologists published a new document revealing the discovery of a 3000-year-old shark attack victim. The remains show that the person was attacked by a shark in the inner seaside of the Japanese archipelago. The discovery of the vestiges of 3000 years is the main direct evidence of a shark attack on a human.
Researchers who have discovered the remains have carefully recreated what has happened with a combination of archaeological and medico-legal scientific techniques. The remains of the shark attack victim were discovered while researchers were investigating evidence of violent trauma on the skeletal remains of prehistoric hunters at the University of Kyoto.
The shark attack specimen is called NO24 and comes from a previously excavated site called Tsukumo. The remains are of an adult man who would have been soggy with traumatic injuries. The researchers say they were initially confused by what could possibly cause at least 790 serrated injuries to man.
The researchers say that there were so many body injuries, but it was always buried in the Community burial field at the Tsukumo Shell-Mound cemetery site. The researchers said that the leftovers wounds were mainly on the arms, legs and the front of the chest and abdomen. By using an elimination process, researchers have excluded human conflicts and predators of animals or scavengers.
The researchers then turned to cases of medico-legal shark attack for indices and were able to reconstruct the attack. The researchers believe that the person died more than 3000 years ago, between 1370 and 1010 AV. J.-C .. They believe that the distribution of wounds suggests that man was alive during the attack noting that his left hand was sheared, presumably a defense injury. The body was recovered after the shark attack and buried by its people in the cemetery. The man also lacked his right leg and his left leg was placed on his body in an inverted position. Researchers believe because of the character and distribution of teeth marks; The shark was probably a tiger or white shark.
