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Published online 20 June 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070518-8
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Early gunshot victim uncovered
Violent wounds tell story of the Spanish conquest of Inca peoples.
Archaeologists have dug up a skeleton from an Inca cemetery in Peru with a hole in its head. The wound suggests that this is the first documented gunshot victim in the New World.
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