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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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