Human bones make the best bone daggers, researchers studying weapons prized by the people of New Guinea have discovered. Using imaging, computer simulations and good-old-fashioned stabbing tests ...

Whether used for cannibalism or not, however, these daggers were clearly prized by the people of New Guinea, Dominy said. "Human bone daggers have to be sourced from a really important person," he ...

a) Human bone dagger attributed to the Upper Sepik River. b) Cassowary bone dagger attributed to the Abelam people. (Credit: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College) Daggers made of human bone were ...

Human thigh bones were used to make incredibly strong daggers. Pictured, Syrian Fayad al-Sioufi working on a dagger scabbard at his shop selling various types of blades made of Damascus steel in ...

New Guinea warriors harvested thigh bones from their dead fathers to fashion into ornamental but deadly daggers used to kill and maim enemies, sometimes to eat them. On Wednesday, an unusual study ...

Strength of New Guinea’s Bone Daggers Evaluated News April 26, 2018 (© Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; NJ Dominy et al, Royal Society Open Science) ...

New Guinea warriors harvested thigh bones from their dead fathers to fashion into ornamental but deadly daggers used to kill and maim enemies, sometimes to eat them.