Human bones make the best bone daggers, researchers studying weapons prized by the people of New Guinea have discovered. Using imaging, computer simulations and good-old-fashioned stabbing tests on ...

Explore the deadly precision of bone daggers from New Guinea, forged from human and cassowary bones for fierce hand-to-hand combat. Bone daggers from New Guinea. a) Human bone dagger attributed to the ...

In the early 20th century, numerous tribes in New Guinea created daggers out of the bones of cassowaries and of humans. The daggers, used in hand-to-hand combat, were incised with elaborate designs ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It turns out human bones, especially thigh bones, were prized by New ...

Human thigh bones were used to make incredibly strong daggers. Pictured, Syrian Fayad al-Sioufi working on a dagger scabbard at his shop selling various types of blades made of Damascus steel in the ...

PARIS - New Guinea warriors harvested thigh bones from their dead fathers to fashion into ornamental but deadly daggers used to kill and maim enemies, sometimes to eat them. But why use human bone ...

A tranquil Swedish wetland has yielded a startlingly intimate scene from prehistory, where a 5,000-year-old dog lies ...

Up until the 20th century, the use of bone daggers among the Papuan males of New Guinea was commonplace. Many of these daggers were forged from the femurs of large birds, but some were made from the ...

Scientists have discovered something you may not want to hear: human bones make great daggers. A team led by Dartmouth College in the US found human thigh bones would produce the best blades after ...

Archaeologists have discovered a unique burial site on the shores of a vanished lake and the current Logsjemossen swamp in southern Sweden, which contains the remains of a dog buried with a bone ...