2200 B.C. archer near Stonehenge

[dorni]

this article has a cool story about an ancient archer. The paper magazine has a nice illustration.

A man between 35 and 45 years of age, he was buried
with a black stone wrist guard on his forearm of the kind
used to protect archers from the snap of a bowstring. Scattered
across his lower body were 16 barbed flint arrowheads
(the shafts to which they presumably had been attached had
long since rotted away) and almost 100 other artifacts. The
archaeologists started calling him the Amesbury Archer, and
they assumed he had something to do with Stonehenge because
the massive stone monument was just a few miles
away.

 

[powerg8]

All the studing of stonehenge they have done and they didn't find this years ago?

 

[Lhorkan]

All the studing of stonehenge they have done and they didn't find this years ago?

What he said. Maybe a farmer was plowing his field and he accidently detached the head of the body, bringing it to the daylight. They dug further and found him.

 

[kroc]

maybe some guy with a metal-detector was walking around trying to find coins and found the guy.. the metal-detector beeped cause the archer had a watch on his wrist too....

yeah

 

[powerg8]

Mybe a metal sundial on his wrist set it off.LOL.

 

[Sir Prince]

I doubt that would actualy work. Hmm, I wonder how many people he killed?

 

[powerg8]

The sundial thing was a joke,it might work if you point it in the right diection tho.And I bet the bow was just for hunting animals, but you never know.

 

[Ingolifs]

The sundial would have to come with a compass and a plumb line.

 

[Sir Saladin]

I like the peat bog sacrificices to Wotan or some Celtic god better. I just don't think you can call yourself a Druid when the only record of their rituals was written by invading Christian Romans. Odin worship is well documented on the other hand.