Was This Man a Bronze-Age Cyborg? His Metal Hand May Have Been a Prosthetic.

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This Bronze Age hand has a gold cuff. Next to it, sit a dagger, a bronze pin and a spiraled hair ornament. The two gold flakes likely came from the metal hand.
Credit: Copyright Philippe Joner/Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern
▼ Treasure hunters in Switzerland have unearthed a hand-some artifact: a 3,500-year-old bronze hand outfitted with a gold cuff, Swiss archaeologists announced last week.
The slightly smaller-than-life hand, crafted during the Bronze Age, is the oldest metal sculpture of a human body part in Europe, the archaeologists said.
An ancient artisan placed a hollow socket at the bottom of the hand, a clue that the body part was once mounted on another object, such as a statue or a scepter, the archaeologists said. Perhaps it was even used as a prosthetic or during rituals, Andrea Schaer, head of the Ancient History and Roman Archeology Department at the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern, told National Geographic.
Treasure hunters armed with metal detectors made the handy discovery near Lake Biel in the Swiss canton (province) of Bern in October of 2017. The next day, the discoverers gave the hand, along with a bronze dagger and rib bone found with it, to the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern.
"We had never seen anything like it," Schaer told National Geographic. "We weren't sure if it was authentic or not — or even what it was."

The hand of Prêles, weighing nearly 18 ounces (17 grams), was cast in bronze with tin.
Credit: Copyright Philippe Joner/Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern
Radiocarbon dating on the glue used to attach the gold foil to the bronze hand revealed that ancient people had made the hand between 1500 B.C. and 1400 B.C. These dates jibed with the age of the bronze dagger, the archaeologists noted in a  statement. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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KH_Hirsch

Skynet obviously been here before. Amazing, if that is what it seems to be.