Editing Amesbury Archer (section)

==Burial==
The Archer's grave yielded the greatest number of [[Artifact (archaeology)|artefacts]] ever found in a British burial from the Early Bronze Age. Among those discovered were: five [[funerary pot]]s of the type associated with the [[Beaker culture]]; three tiny copper knives; sixteen barbed flint arrowheads; a kit of [[flint-knapping]] and metalworking tools, including cushion stones that functioned as a kind of portable [[anvil]], which suggests he was a coppersmith; and some boar tusks. A piece of [[Pyrite|iron pyrite]], which sparks when struck by flint to start a fire, had been well used with grooves worn along its sides.<ref name=":0" /> On his forearm was a black [[stone wrist-guard]]. A similar red wrist-guard was by his knees. With the second wrist-guard was a [[shale]] belt ring and a pair of gold hair ornaments, the oldest gold objects known from England.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Wessex Archaeology |url=http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/amesbury/archer_burial.html |title=The Archer's Burial |website=wessexarch.co.uk}}</ref>

The anatomy of the Archer has been well documented, with several unusual features including [[Acromion|os acromiale]] whereby the [[acromion]] at the tip of the [[scapula]] was not fused as is usual,<ref name=":0" /> [[spina bifida occulta]] ('hidden' [[spina bifida]])<ref name=":0" /> and a missing left [[patella]].<ref name=":0" /> Research using [[oxygen]] [[isotope analysis]] in the Archer's [[tooth enamel]] has suggested that he originated from an alpine region of central Europe. An eroded hole in his jaw showed that he had had an abscess, and his missing left kneecap suggests that he had an injury that left him with a painful lingering bone infection.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amesbury Archer {{!}} The Salisbury Museum |url=https://salisburymuseum.org.uk/collections/stonehenge-prehistory/amesbury-archer |access-date=2019-04-11 |website=salisburymuseum.org.uk}}</ref>

His skeleton is now on display at the [[Salisbury Museum]] in [[Salisbury]].