I find I'm still ... depressed, almost, over the news that Otzi, the 5000 years dead "Ice Man" whose body was found in a glacier between Italy and Austria in 1991, died in battle.
An arrow in a major artery in his back did him in, apparently. And he had other wounds. And he had the blood of several other people on him. Death in combat looks like the plausible explanation.
Well, sure, that's our species. But I find myself wishing when we have one guy to testify to life in Europe 5000 years ago, that he had not gone for soldiers like so many of his descendants.
Update, July 2007: Current National Geographic has the story in its typically superb fashion, with some revisions to the summary above.
