A young man in Bulgaria was left with horrific injuries to his head and limbs after he was mauled by a lion 6,000 years ago. Amazingly, however, the unfortunate chap survived the attack thanks to the care of his Copper Age community, although he probably suffered from physical and mental disabilities for the rest of his short, miserable life. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The victim’s skeleton was discovered in a necropolis near the fifth-millennium BCE site of Kozareva Mogila in eastern Bulgaria. Thought to have been between the ages of 18 and 25 at the time of his death, the young man displayed a series of uniquely awful lesions on his skull, arms, and legs.

Suspecting that the injuries may have been the work of a

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