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2006-05-16 Europe

New Scientist: Muggings were rife in New Stone Age

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Posted by 3dc 2006-05-16 11:03|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ban Clubs!! Someone think of the children!!!

Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-16 11:11|| 2006-05-16 11:11|| Front Page Top

#2 and a 1 in 50 chance of dying from their injuries

Does this prove blunt trauma is a good stopper, but a bad killer???

IIRC, from what I've read online, the FBI stats are that (hand)guns wounds in the USA have a 5% lethality rate (IE 1 in 20 chance of dying), while knives have 15%.
(I also seem to recall that assault rifles calibers are at about 15% (Fackler states a 14% mortality rate for the 7,62x39 from his Viet Nam experience as a war surgeon), while shotguns are about 66%, I've even read in a swell russian site that 95% of thoses incapacited by shotgun blast during police raids die, against 5% of thoses incapacitated by pistols, not sure what to make of this.
Of course, all this supposes modern medecine, figures would probably would be higher without it, not counting short term survival from sepsis, permanent disabilties, etc, etc... prevented by it).

Boy, were theses cavedudes tough!

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-16 11:25|| 2006-05-16 11:25|| Front Page Top

#3 I will give up my club when they peel it from my cold fossilized hand...

Posted by tu3031 2006-05-16 12:17|| 2006-05-16 12:17|| Front Page Top

#4 This squares with one archaeologist's observation of pre-Clovis skulls in North America. Same injuries, same pattern.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-05-16 14:40|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-05-16 14:40|| Front Page Top

#5 The reason men refuse to ask for directions TO THIS VERY DAY!

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-05-16 17:41|| 2006-05-16 17:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Have they found the cave wall 'club registry' records yet?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-05-16 17:59|| 2006-05-16 17:59|| Front Page Top

#7 *rimshot*

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-16 18:29|| 2006-05-16 18:29|| Front Page Top

#8 If they ran this in the fertile crescent, I bet they'd find most of the fatal blows were to the right side of the head, which would make sense if right-handed pre-muzzies were attacking.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-16 18:39|| 2006-05-16 18:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Coffee alert, Nimble Spemble.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-05-16 21:15|| 2006-05-16 21:15|| Front Page Top

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