The Stonehenge Archer mystery

The murder of a man dubbed "The Stonehenge Archer" committed thousands of years ago has intrigued archaeologists and been a continued cause of argument and debate'  In 1978, Richard Atkinson and John G. Evans found the remains of a Bronze Age man buried in the outer ditch of Stonehenge. This burial was unusual for the Stonehenge area as most bodies are found in barrows. 

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A stone wrist guard such as archers use to protect their wrists from the recoil of a bow string were found with him along with several flint arrowheads. No bow was found.  Any organic material such as wood for arrow shafts of used in a bow had rotted away. Some of the arrowheads were found in the body which suggests they had caused his death or had been incapacitated by them and then killed.  But who killed him and why?  Read more