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5MTUMR-2346-1037

Record

Collection
MANCOS
Country of origin
USA

Scientific notes

Marks made by percussion. "A sharp-edged "hammerstone" (for example, a chopper used as a percussor to fracture a limb-bone shaft) will often leave a chopmark on the bone." p.p. 140 (White, 1992)

1 lesions

sharp

Bones
Tibia
Timing
Perimortem
Force
Direct

Stone tool — Hammerstone Blunt force

1 photographs are recorded for this lesion but are no longer retrievable: the server that held them is no longer reachable. The records themselves are unaffected.

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MANCOS. catalogue no. 5MTUMR-2346-1037