It is a tragic fact that it is never time to cover all interesting scientific stories every month. In the past, we have characterized the round -up at the end of the year Stories of cool science We (almost) lost. This year, we are experimenting with a monthly collection. In the April list, a new research on tattoide targeted, the first direct picture of a great Baby Squad, the recently discovered Merlin’s digital discovery, and an ancient Roman Gladiator, whose skeleton shows signs of rotating through a lion.
Gladiatter vs. Lion?
The popular pictures of Roman Gladiators in the fighting include fighting not only humans but also wild animals. We know from surviving texts, imagery and samples that such battles are likely. But severe physical evidence is very limited. Archaeologists have now found the first directly -ology evidence: a skeleton of a Roman Gladiator that suffered a wild animal in Akhada, perhaps. A lion, based on signs of cutting on the pelvic bone, according to one, Paper The journal was published in Plus One.
The question was whether a young man, who was 26 to 35 years old, was buried between 200-300 CE, which is now near York, England, which was formerly the Roman city of Eberkam. It is one of many such skeletons, most young people whose remnants have shown a sign of trauma – so it is suggested that the Gladiator may be replaced by burial. “We used a method of name structural light scanning [to study the skeleton]”Tim Thomson, co -author of the University of Mayanat, told ARS.” This is a way to create a 3D model using light grid. It is not like X -ray or CT, it records the properties of just surface (not internal), but since it does not use light and X -rays, it is more secure, cheap and more portable. We have published it to a great extent and its use is shown in both archeology and forensic context. “
The team compared the pelvic lesions found on the skeleton of the subject with signs of cutting with modern animal patterns and concluded that the young man was cut by “big species”. At the time of death, the tiger is scoring on the body. The young man was disconnected after his death for unknown reasons, though it was a formal practice for some people in the Roman era. Thomson said, though evidence is technically, “we trust our results.” “We have adopted a multi -faceted approach to solve this problem and also draw on the methods of various subjects. The use of a contemporary comparison of contemporaries is the same thing that gives us confidence.”