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In the dark rock shelter of Riparo Tagliente in Italy's Lessini Mountains, the fragmentary skeleton of a young man, interred more than 17,000 years ago, provides a chilling window (and reminder) into Stone Age violence. Long regarded as a mysterious burial of the Late Epigravettian age, the individual identified as Tagliente 1 has emerged from prehistory not as a peacefully laid-to-rest hunter, but as a victim of a calculated, lethal assault. He was struck by flint-pointed projectiles in what appears to have been an ambush. New research, published in Scientific Reports, uses advanced microscopy and 3D imaging to reevaluate incised marks found on the femur and tibia of Tagliente 1. These gouges, once casually attributed to post-mortem breakage or even