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This poor individual was living at Pompeii when it was buried by tephra during an eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The body tissues eventually decayed and the bones likewise disappeared leaving a mold in the semi-lithified volcaniclastic material. Archeologists working the site would strike these pores form time to time. Someone got the idea to pore in plaster and then chip away the rock matrix and see what the hole was. Imagine their surprise when the came up with fossils of Homo siepens that were less than 2 thousand years old.
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Dog was chained up when the end came.