Geophysical imaging of buried human remains in simulated mass and single graves: Experiment design and results from pre-burial to six months after burial.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111289
Abstract: In this study, we present an experiment design and assess the capability of multiple geophysical techniques to image buried human remains in mass and individual graves using human cadavers willingly donated for scientific research. The… read more here.
Keywords: individual graves; mass; mass grave; buried human ... See more keywords
Early Neolithic executions indicated by clustered cranial trauma in the mass grave of Halberstadt
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04773-w
Abstract: The later phase of the Central European Early Neolithic witnessed a rise in collective lethal violence to a level undocumented up to this date. This is evidenced by repeated massacres of settled communities of the… read more here.
Keywords: early neolithic; mass grave; mass; grave halberstadt ... See more keywords
Unraveling ancestry, kinship, and violence in a Late Neolithic mass grave
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1820210116
Abstract: Significance We sequenced the genomes of 15 skeletons from a 5,000-y-old mass grave in Poland associated with the Globular Amphora culture. All individuals had been brutally killed by blows to the head, but buried with… read more here.
Keywords: mass grave; late neolithic; ware; corded ware ... See more keywords
A monument to not exhume: Silence, speech, and issues surrounding the mass grave of communist fighters at the Battle of Florina (1949), Northern Greece*
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DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2022.2131053
Abstract: Abstract The paper opens by establishing a fact through fieldwork: a 70-year-old mass grave containing the remains of several hundred communist fighters who died in the battle of Florina (12 February 1949) was recently marked… read more here.
Keywords: communist fighters; mass grave; battle florina; mass ... See more keywords
The face of war: Trauma analysis of a mass grave from the Battle of Lützen (1632)
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178252
Abstract: Contemporary accounts of battles are often incomplete or even erroneous because they reflect the—often biased—viewpoints of the authors. Battlefield archaeology faces the task of compiling an historical analysis of a battle and of gathering all… read more here.
Keywords: mass grave; battle tzen; battle; analysis ... See more keywords