Tag: Forensics
Larger-scale warfare may have occurred in Europe 1,000 years earlier than previously thought
A re-analysis of more than 300 sets of 5,000-year-old skeletal remains excavated from a site in Spain suggests that many of the individuals may...
Experts reconstruct the face of Peru’s most famous mummy, a teenage Inca sacrificed in Andean snow
The possible living face of Peru’s most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the...
Cranial traumas show dramatic increase as the first cities were being built
The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants. Laws, centralized administration,...
Oldest evidence of human cannibalism as a funerary practice
The remains of human bones with cutmarks, breaks and human chewing marks found across northern Europe show that some human groups living around 15,000...
A Roman-period cranial tumor case is detected
A multidisciplinary team at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has published a paper in the journal Virtual Archaeology Review on a Roman-period...
Unveiling Japan’s ancient practice of cranial modification: The case of the Hirota people in Tanegashima
A team of biological anthropologists and archaeologists from Kyushu University and the University of Montana have broken new ground in our understanding on the...