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What the ‘Thames Beater’ could do to skulls
![The Thames Beater, a fourth-century BC wooden club (top) and modern replica (bottom).](http://media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-017-08306-1/d41586-017-08306-1_15280006.jpg)
The destructive powers of the Thames Beater, a fourth-century BC wooden club (top), were tested with a modern replica (bottom). Credit: Meaghan Dyer/M. Dyer & L. Fibiger/Antiquity December 2017
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Nature 552, 151 (2017)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-08306-1