To work out the type of weapon used, the researchers created bone-like balls with a gelatine interior and hit them with a rock, a 10-meter fall, and a baseball bat.
To work out the type of weapon used, the researchers created bone-like balls with a gelatine interior and hit them with a rock, a 10-meter fall, and a baseball bat. On examining the skull substitutes, the team discovered that a rock created a small puncture wound, the fall shattered a larger portion of the skull-substitute, but the rounded baseball bat created the exact wound found on the Romanian skull. From this evidence, the scientists agreed that the victim had been hit by another person with a rounded, club-like weapon (Kranioti, 2019). The victim had been murdered, 33,000 years ago.