Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence How Violent Death Is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains
Book contents
- Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence: How Violent Death is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains
- Series page
- Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Overview and innovative methodologies
- 2 Killed in action? A biometrical analysis of femora of supposed battle victims from the Middle Bronze Age site of Weltzin 20, Germany
- 3 The taphonomy of maritime warfare: a forensic reinterpretation of sharp force trauma from the 1676 wreck of the Royal Swedish Warship Kronan
- 4 The determination of homicide vs. suicide in gunshot wounds
- 5 The first cut is the deepest: looking for patterns in cases of human dismemberment
- 6 Victims of violence? A methodological case study from precolonial Northern Mexico
- Part III Ritual and performative violence
- Part IV Violence and identity
- Part V Concluding thoughts
- Index
3 - The taphonomy of maritime warfare: a forensic reinterpretation of sharp force trauma from the 1676 wreck of the Royal Swedish Warship Kronan
from Part II - Overview and innovative methodologies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2014
Book contents
- Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence: How Violent Death is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains
- Series page
- Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Overview and innovative methodologies
- 2 Killed in action? A biometrical analysis of femora of supposed battle victims from the Middle Bronze Age site of Weltzin 20, Germany
- 3 The taphonomy of maritime warfare: a forensic reinterpretation of sharp force trauma from the 1676 wreck of the Royal Swedish Warship Kronan
- 4 The determination of homicide vs. suicide in gunshot wounds
- 5 The first cut is the deepest: looking for patterns in cases of human dismemberment
- 6 Victims of violence? A methodological case study from precolonial Northern Mexico
- Part III Ritual and performative violence
- Part IV Violence and identity
- Part V Concluding thoughts
- Index
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- Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on ViolenceHow Violent Death Is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains, pp. 34 - 50Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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