To investigate what is currently known about skeletal blunt force trauma (BFT) resulting from
falls, and how valuable that research is in contributing to forensic anthropology …

In the discrimination of falls versus blows, the hat brim line (HBL) rule is mentioned in
several textbooks as the most useful single criterion. Recent studies, however, have found …

Free-fall fractures represent a specific form of blunt force trauma that can be hard to interpret
because of the numerous factors that affect it. The aim of this study is to focus on skeletal …

Falls from a height are a common cause of suicidal death in urban settings. The aim of the
present work is to describe and discuss a specific set of 307 autopsies performed in a …

Practitioners of forensic medicine have various tools at their disposal to determine cause of
death, and today's computed tomography (CT) can provide valuable clues if images are …

Objective: Falls from height are placed on the top of trauma cases presenting to emergency
departments and are causes of important mortality and morbidity. We aimed to investigate in …

Falls from height are the most common cause of blunt trauma after traffic accidents. The
focus of this retrospective study was to analyze the relationship between injuries in fatal falls …

The injury patterns resulting from fatal high (˃ 3 m) free falls have previously been
documented in clinical and medico‐legal contexts; however, details relating specifically to …

In the discovery of human remains from water environments, manner of death may not be
immediately obvious to medicolegal investigators due to several factors, including lack of …

The aim of this paper is to test the hypothesis that healed traumatic injuries in the pre-
Neolithic assemblage of Con Co Ngua, northern Vietnam (c. 6800–6200 cal BP) are …