Walking Ancient CounterfeitMahessa83-Archaeologists have discovered a 2,200-year-old artificial leg from the knee of a man with a defect in an ancient cemetery near Turpan, China.
The archaeological come researching saying that the artificial leg of a disabled man shell consists of the knee, femur and tibia are fused together in a position of 80 degrees.
The researchers found that fused knee human will make it difficult to walk or ride a horse without this artificial leg. This person can not straighten his left leg that required a prosthetic leg. When attached, allowing it to his left foot touch the floor for a walk.
False leg is made of Poplar Wood, has seven holes to bind to the foot of the defect. At the bottom of this cylindrical prosthetic limbs wrapped in cow horn and tipped with hooves that are intended to improve adhesion (adhesion) and abrasion (scratch).
Severe damage to the prosthetic leg indicates that it has been used in a long time. On radiocarbon dating indicates that this tomb has been there since 2200 years ago.
While other False Leg ever found is the prosthetic leg is made of bronze found in Capua, Italy. The leg that had been destroyed by bombing in World War II. Likewise with Jari False discovery ever found in Egypt.
In two studies conducted by experts who published in the Journal of Quaternary Internasioanal Bridging Eurasia and provide details that prosthetic limbs used by people with a height of about 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 meters) at 65-70 years old when he died.
The man appears out of the ordinary. because he was not buried with luxury. Burial place found only from ceramic cups, bottles, wooden plate and also bow out of the wood. Some time later after the funeral, grave exhumed for entering a woman of about 2o years so intrusive presence of his artificial leg. The tomb was found is one of the graves of 30 tombs that nothing has been dug by archaeologists.
people Gushi
Based on the results of radiocarbon dating, this man is probably one of the Gushi. Just a little knowledge about the whereabouts of these people. In ancient Chinese manuscript indicates that the Gushi has a small country as recorded in Xia Zuan and Hanshu (Book of Han Ban Gu) during the middle of the Western Han who live in the Valley of Turfan. Gushi population is one of the 36 tribes living in the area west of the Qin and Han Dynasty, wrote the archaeologists.
According to the Book of Ancient China, then the State Gushi conquered by the Han Dynasty of China during the war in the first century BC.
Tomb excavation, which began in 2007 to 2008 ago by scientists from the research institute Academia Turfanica. Their findings are then published in 2013 in the Journal Kaougu Chinese.
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