Paleolithic weapons
In 1921 in Zambia (at Broken Hill or "Kabwe" above Lusaka), a human skull of approximately 38,000 years ago was found, therefore from the Paleolithic era, preserved in London in the Natural History Museum.
The peculiarity of this skull is a hole, present in the left cranial wall, perfectly circular, which, strangely, in its outline does not have any radial or other type of lesion that would indicate a hole produced by a spear, an arrow or manually. On the bone opposite to this specific lesion the skull is split, thus allowing us, through a reconstruction of the fragments, to understand that the hole was created from the inside outwards, as if it had been a firearm, a a rifle.
Experts declare that it could not have been anything other than a shot fired at high speed with the aim of causing a fatal blow. But who ever in the Paleolithic era did have a rifle or deadly material of this caliber? Perhaps a more evolved and civilized race? Or perhaps the adjective "prehistoric" should identify a historical period of evolution obviously preceding ours, but certainly with a development perhaps greater than what canonical historians claim? Finally, perhaps the dilemma would be: Club or gun? to you the choice...
