1800s weapon found embedded in whale's blubber
A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt -- more than a century ago.
Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 ½-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old.
interesting
I always wonder about dating methods of this type. So we know the weapon is a little more than 100 years old. But how do we know when it was used on the whale? Perhaps some hunter used the weapon 50 years after it was produced.
I am sure the AP arcticle left out some information.
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