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A human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees suggests that someone survived a shot in the back several millennia ago.

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Unlike Dolní Věstonice 13, Ötzi can’t be said to display a Neanderthal-like thorax, although his barrel-chested body plan does suggest that he was specifically adapted to living in cold environments.