#Biting the bullet podcast full
Mitch gets into why female goalkeepers can’t run backwards and jump at the same time, getting his goal keeper sister to train with a male Professional former British Red Shirt just smoking her with full pelt shots, Jorge talks about the ability and development of South American kids growing up playing football in the streets and the gang gets into the shifting culture around Soccer in the US and how more money is offering more opportunities, but also unnecessarily Americanizing the sport. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, Inc.Mitch goes all in and talks Soccer unapologetically with VCTM Henry and his friend Jorge this episode. Edited by Douglas Scott, Lawrence Babits, and Charles Haecker. In Fields of Conflict: Battlefield Archaeology from the Roman Empire to the Korean War. What the Musket Ball Can Tell: Monmouth Battlefield State Park, New Jersey. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. Accessed August 24, 2012.įirearms in Colonial America: The Impact on History and Technology, 1492-1792. "Both poisoned and chewed the musket balls.", entry for June 18, 2012. Leonard tooth does show that pigs would chew on metallic things, and bite down on them hard enough to jam the material in their teeth, so they could be a source for some of the marks found on musket balls.įuture research may shed more light on the tooth, but for now, th-th-that’s all, folks! While we do not know if the source of the metal is a musket ball or some other object, the Smith’s St. The metal has been forced into the crevices of the crown, and its top has been pressed smooth and even with the surface of the tooth, probably from the pressure of repeated chewing. Based on x-rays and visual examination, it is white metal, probably lead. Embedded deeply into the crown of the tooth is a foreign object. Leonard site, an early 18th-century plantation at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum. A pig tooth, split in half, was found at the Smith’s St. Leonard tooth and confirmed that it was non-human, as evidenced by the cusp height and very thick enamel layer, and showed no sign of decay that would require a filling.Ī recent discovery supports the idea of pigs as a source of tooth marks on lead shot. However, a dentist examined the Smith's St. Tooth fillings made with liquid lead or other soft metals were sometimes used during the colonial period.
Animal tooth impressions might be more likely on a residential site, but they have also been found at battlefields (Sivilich 2009). Rodents tend to leave distinct fine striations on lead shot, but the chewing and digestion of a musket ball by a pig – which would happen as the animal is rooting around the ground looking for food – can leave it covered with tooth marks. In recent years another source of the marks has been suggested: chewing by pigs and rodents. And it has been suggested that soldiers might chew scraps of lead into a ball shape if no shot mold was available, or bite into them to create segments that would separate on impact and cause a larger wound, much like a modern dum-dum bullet (Brown 1980:328 Muzzle Loading Forum n.d. The marks could also be produced by soldiers sucking on lead shot to generate saliva, hoping to alleviate thirst. Most obvious was “biting the bullet” to cope with pain, especially from battlefield wounds.
Human teeth were long assumed to be the main cause of these marks, through various means. The tooth indentations would supposedly help secure the "poison" to the shot (Bell 2012).Īrchaeologists often recover musket balls with tooth marks on them. In the colonial era, soldiers sometimes accused their enemies of chewing musket balls and then dipping them in poison or feces in order to cause infection and make gunshot wounds more deadly.
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