Historical-anthropological-forensic analysis of a skeleton from a grave datable about year 1000 with traumatic lesions that indicate causes and modalities of the death
Historical-anthropological-forensic analysis of a skeleton from a grave datable about year 1000 with traumatic lesions that indicate causes and modalities of the death
The archaeological finding of an isolated buried skeleton in the neighbourhood of a
small medieval church has made to date, by the archaeologists, the grave approximately
about the year 1000. The study of the skeleton with forensic-anthropological techniques
has allowed to obtain many marks about the physical features of the subject; but, above
all, very thorough forensic-pathological examination, also using of optical and electronic
microscopical techniques, has allowed to characterize meaningful injuries at the head,
evocative of their intra-vitam production, indicative of some features of the productive
mean and much evocative of causes and modalities of the death, probably identifiable in
an execution. The purpose is to suggest the comparative use of macroscopic, microscopic
and ultra-microscopic morphologic analysis compared can suggest solutions of cases
happened in far historical ages, cases of which we only have the skeletal substrate.