'They discovered that there were lesions apparent in both groups of males, such as the bony attachment site for the biceps muscle, meaning regardless of whether the man was an archer or not, he had well-developed upper forearm muscles. “These common alterations refer to an activity that was widespread among the whole male population,” Tihanyi and colleagues write, although they do not know exactly what that activity was.'
Aside from the humorous implication of this paragraph, I wonder what activity it was. Sword-swinging? Some kind of repetitive work?
Bioarchaeology is so cool.