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I am very much aware of all of the incredible things that man is capable of doing. Man has the ability to do great things like starting an alphabet; hand writing and building civilization that still marvel us today. Unfortunately man also has the ability to be very violent and create instruments for fighting, injury, and death. A recent discovery found that they might have found the oldest victim from one of mans instruments of destruction. Here are the facts. The musket blast was sudden and deadly, the killing nearly 500 years ago of what may have been the first gunshot victim in the Western Hemisphere. To be sure this was a gunshot wound - making it the earliest one documented in the Americas - the skull was studied by forensics expert Tim Palmbach at the University of New Haven, who brought in other experts "We didn't expect it. We saw this skull and saw the almost round hole and thought people must have been shooting around here recently," said Guillermo Cock, an archaeologist who found the remains near Lima, Peru. The skull was found among a large group of bones of ancient Incas, who had died violently in the early 1500s as the Spanish Conquistadors battled the native empire. We all thought it was a million-to-one chance that we would find any traces of metal on a skull that old, but it was worth a try," Harper said in a statement. But there they were, fragments of metal from a musket ball impregnated the area surrounding the hole. Cock and archaeologist Elena Goycochea discovered the burials in a Lima suburb in 2004 and have since recovered 72 apparent victims of violence from the site.The bones were in shallow graves, leading the archaeologist to speculate the burials were done hurriedly during conflict, perhaps an uprising against the Spanish in 1536. I do know thayt man is capable of doing things both on the physical and sprital level that are quite astounding. These great things are always right along side the terrible things man is able to acomplish. . Five hundread years ago it was a musket bullet to day it is nuclear bombs. My spirit is troubled.

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