{"id":2074,"date":"2014-06-21T18:14:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T23:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2014-06-21T18:14:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T23:14:48","slug":"solving-a-4000-year-old-cold-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/solving-a-4000-year-old-cold-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving a 4000-year-old \u2018cold case\u2019<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2078\" style=\"width: 349px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/14206958008_6596741d63_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2078\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2078\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/14206958008_6596741d63_o.jpg\" alt=\"This 4000-year old skull is missing the two front incisors and has a projectile tip embedded in the jaw just below where they would be, but the two features aren\u2019t related, according to a new study. (Photo credit: Canadian Light Source)\" width=\"339\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/14206958008_6596741d63_o.jpg 339w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/14206958008_6596741d63_o-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This 4000-year old skull is missing the two front incisors and has a projectile tip embedded in the jaw just below where they would be, but the two features aren\u2019t related, according to a new study. (Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/97079436@N04\/14206958008\/in\/set-72157644700524347\/\">Canadian Light Source<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A 4000-year-old skull is missing its front two teeth on the bottom jaw and has a projectile point embedded in it, but a new study shows the two aren\u2019t related. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers used advanced bone imaging analysis techniques to show that the projectile tip was part of a larger arrowhead, the rest of which was buried with the body, but that the tooth anomaly was probably due to a genetic disorder that affects about one per cent of the population. This probably means that the projectile was involved in the man\u2019s death, rather than the result of an earlier incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1879981714000394\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">International Journal of Paleopathology\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 20, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Cooper, University of Saskatchewan,\u00a0<\/span>Saskatchewan<\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Isaac Pratt, University of Saskatchewan,\u00a0<\/span>Saskatchewan<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 4000-year-old skull is missing its front two teeth on the bottom jaw and has a projectile point embedded in it, but a new study shows the two aren\u2019t related. Researchers used advanced bone imaging analysis techniques to show that the projectile tip was part of a larger arrowhead, the rest of which was buried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1812,1813,1811,1810],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-history","tag-mystery","tag-paleopathology","tag-saskatchewan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/14206958008_6596741d63_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-xs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}