Body map: Navigation screenshot of the Tsukumo 24 BodyMap 3D web app showing the distribution of wounds caused by the shark. Credit: John Pouncett, Rick J. Schulting, and J. Alyssa White. Through a process of elimination, we ruled out human conflict and more commonly-reported animal predators or scavengers.’Since archaeological cases of shark reports are extremely rare, they turned to forensic shark attack cases for clues and worked with expert George Burgess, Director Emeritus of the Florida Program for Shark Research. The distribution of wounds strongly suggest the victim was alive at the time of attack; his left hand was sheared off, possibly a defence wound. According to the pair, ‘Given the injuries, he was clearly the victim of a shark attack.
