Roman soldier pierced skull

[Akropolis]

Supposedly a result of Julius Caesar's war with Gauls:

[Jay GT4]

Wow. Is there an article or paper that goes along with this?

[Akropolis]

Not to my knowledge.
Just something I snipped from the web.

A comment from another chat group follows:
"That skull is at the Rocsen Museum (Nono, Córdoba, Argentina) and is advertised as that. But I don´t think it is actually true.
The skull was found by a kid who eventually funded this museum along with some coins, donations and old inheritance stuff from his family.
Teeths are missing and in general, jaw looks like that of an old person, not a regular legionary. In any case, a veteran who saw action for a last time, but I doubt it."

PeteB

[OldMoney]

That skull is also almost certainly female!

- Walter

[Robert_Brenchley]

The hole looks too big to have been made by the spear.

[Tacitus]

spear looks wrong as well. 

[David Fischer]

I have a hard time believing that someone could thrust a spear through both sides of skull like that. It looks more like someone found a skull with existing damage and stuck a rusty spear head in it...

[SC]

The shape of the exit wound hole does not bother me.  A spear tip could easily chip out a larger piece of bone than its own cross-section.

However, if the spear head is original it would almost certainly have iron oxide that was effectively bonded to the bone. None is visible in the posted image.

There are some genuine archaeological finds - usually of arrowheads not spear heads - found in situ in the skeleton (spine, ribs, etc.), but everyone that I have seen has had the iron oxide bonding. 

A photo from the other side would be interesting as it would reveal whether there is such bonding or not.

SC