The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India

Re:The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India by pingou on Monday May 27, 2013 @08:26AM (#5774390)

It doesn't make sense to me, why did the bodies only have wounds on the head and shoulders ?

It seems intuitive that you protect your head with your hands and arms, as sudden as the hailstorm may have been, and once they collapsed to the ground their whole bodies should have been hit (although I guess their clothes could have protected them a bit) ?

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Re:The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India by Ma8ee on Monday May 27, 2013 @10:50AM (#5774804)

My guess is that those are the only wounds that are visible on the bone. On most of the rest of the body the bones are protected by soft tissue.

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Re:The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India by pingou on Monday May 27, 2013 @12:32PM (#5775225)

Maybe but I don’t think there’s that much soft tissue protecting the hands. Maybe they were stoned, then digged up for some reason?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning

That would explain why there wasn’t any survivor able to come back later to bury her comrades (if you curl you up I’m not sure how a hailstorm could be lethal to everyone in a big group)

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Re:The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India by Ma8ee on Monday May 27, 2013 @09:35PM (#5777514)

I think that it is probably hard to find enough hand bones to piece together to determine if they have been hit by something big and blunt after this many years.

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