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Warrior Buried Under Bone Shield 4,000 Years Ago

Warrior Buried Under Bone Shield 4,000 Years Ago
The 3D model of a warrior archer. Credit: North-Eastern Federal University

A neolithic warrior gets a face thanks to modern tech.

At first, it was just a cluster of bone plates peeking from the shallow Siberian soil.

The warrior was entombed beneath a shield made from the bones of an Altai wapiti, a large Siberian elk. Weapons and armor made of bone were likely common during that time. Previously, in 2014, archaeologists led by Boris Konikov uncovered an amazing 4,000-year-old suit of bone armor in remote Siberia.

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