Study Suggests Prehistoric Teenager Survived Lion Attack for Several Months - Archaeology Magazine

Study Suggests Prehistoric Teenager Survived Lion Attack for Several Months - Archaeology Magazine

SOFIA, BULGARIA—According to a Live Science report, researchers including archaeozoologist Nadezhda Karastoyanova of the National Museum of Natural History of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NMNH-BAS) examined the 6,200-year-old skeletal remains of a teenaged boy and determined that he had been attacked by a lion (Panthera leo). The boy, whose remains were unearthed in eastern Bulgaria at a prehistoric settlement site known as Kozareva Mogila…