Blunt force trauma is one of the most common injuries encountered by the forensic
pathologist in a variety of scenarios such as transportation fatalities, jumping or falling from …

Born out of the need to recover, analyze, and present physical evidence on thousands of
individual victims of large-scale human rights violations, multi-national, multi-disciplinary …

There are numerous cases where variables such as time since death, exposure, fire, animal
scavenging, and/or human intervention result in partial or full skeletonisation. When soft …

In recent decades, there has been a dramatic increase in information from archaeological
skeletons about violent encounters that took place within and among societies, especially …

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 …

The Corded Ware is one of the major archaeological traditions of Late Neolithic Europe. Its
burial customs are characterized by single graves but multiple burials also occur. We …

This chapter explores how an ongoing drought (ca. 900–1350 CE), which overlaps with the
decline of the Wari Empire (ca. 1100 CE), altered the frequency and intensity of violence and …

The Cioclovina (Romania) calvaria, dated to ca. 33 cal ka BP and thought to be associated
with the Aurignacian lithic industry, is one of the few relatively well preserved …

Objectives To test a hypothesis on interpersonal violence events during the transition
between Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in the Eastern Pyrenees, to contextualize it in Western …

This study documents relationships between input energy, impactor shape, and the
formation of fractures in human crania. Parietal impact experiments (n= 12) were performed …