The first known shark attack on a human being occurred
about 3,000 years ago in Japan
, in which an adult male died, whose remains, found at the Tsukumo site in 2021, were riddled with traumatic injuries. .
The events would have occurred in the Seto Inland Sea, in the Japanese archipelago, according to a study published by the
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
and signed by an international team of researchers, who tried to reconstruct the events using a combination of
archaeological science and techniques. forensics.
The victim's remains were found by Oxford University researchers while studying evidence of violent trauma in the skeletal remains of prehistoric hunter-gatherers preserved at Kyoto University, where they found an individual
identified with the number 24.
3D reconstruction of the individual's body and wounds (University of Oxford).
Initially, experts Alyssa White and Rick Schulting were "perplexed" by the depth and
number of
jagged-shaped wounds (almost 800) that the remains presented, the University of Oxford explains in a statement.
The lesions were mainly limited to
the arms, legs, front of the chest and abdomen
and experts carried out a process of elimination to rule out that their origin was due to human conflicts, predators or the most common scavengers.
The team concluded that the individual died between 1,370 and 1,010 BC and the distribution of the wounds suggests that he was alive at the time of the attack (Kyoto University).
The team concluded that the individual died more than 3,000 years ago, between
1,370 and 1,010 BC
, and that the distribution of the wounds suggests that
he was alive at the time of the attack.
A fascinating discovery
Archaeologists estimate that individual number 24 was recovered by his people shortly after the attack and buried.
Excavation records show that
he was missing a hand and his right leg
, while the left leg was placed on the body in an inverted position.
They consider it to have been an attack by a tiger or white shark, taking into account the distribution and character of the tooth marks.
The experts' hypothesis is that the man
could have been fishing
with his companions when he suffered the attack, so his body could be recovered quickly, and they consider that it could have been
a tiger or white shark
, taking into account the distribution and character. of teeth marks.
Co-author Mark Hudson, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute, said the find not only provides a new perspective on ancient Japan, but is also a rare example of how archaeologists can
reconstruct a dramatic episode
in the life of a community. prehistoric
EFE Agency.
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