A team of researchers led by Archaeologists from Oxford has published a new document that reveals the discovery of a 3000-year shark attack victim. The remains show that the person was attacked by a shark in the inland sea of the Japanese archipelago hedge. The discovery of the 3000-year-old remains is the earliest direct evidence of a shark attack on a human.
The researchers who discovered the remains have been carefully recreated again with a combination of archaeological science and forensic techniques. The remains of the shark attack victim were discovered while the researchers were investigating the evidence of a violent trauma in the skeletal remains of prehistoric hunter collectors at Kyoto University.
The shark attack specimen is called NO24 and is a previously excavated site called Tsukumo. The remains are from an adult man who, as reported, with traumatic injuries. Researchers say they were initially confused so it could have caused at least 790 deep toothed injuries to man.
Researchers say there were so many injuries in the body, but it was still buried in the community burial at the Tsukumo Shell-Mound Cemetery site. The researchers said that the injuries to the remains were mainly in the arms, the legs and the front of the chest and the abdomen. Using a process of elimination, the researchers discarded predators of human conflicts and animals or sweeps.
The researchers then went to the cases of attack of forensic sharks for tracks and could join the attack. Researchers believe that the individual died more than 3000 years ago, between 1370 and 1010 BC. They believe that the distribution of wounds suggests that man was alive during the attack, pointing out that his left hand was cut, presumably a defender wound. The body recovered after the attack of sharks and buried by the people of him in the cemetery. The man also lacked his right leg, and his left leg was placed on his body in an inverted position. Researchers believe due to the character and distribution of toothed brands; The shark was probably a tiger or white shark.