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New Guinea bone daggers were engineered to preserve social prestige

Bone daggers were once widespread in New Guinea. Their purpose was both symbolic and utilitarian; they functioned as objects of artistic expression with the primary function of stabbing and killing people at close quarters. Most daggers were shaped from the tibiotarsus of cassowaries, but daggers sh...

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Autores principales: Dominy, Nathaniel J., Mills, Samuel T., Yakacki, Christopher M., Roscoe, Paul B., Carpenter, R. Dana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5936927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29765662
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172067