Abstract
For the purposes of this paper a wide interpretation is placed on the word ‘trauma’ to include all forms of damage inflicted on human bones by human activity. Soft tissue damage not involving bone will not, except in highly unusual circumstances, such as the accidental preservation of a body in a peat bog or deliberate preservation in a burial rite such as mummification, normally enter the archaeological record. This paper will consider examples of weapon injury, surgical intervention and burial ritual from a variety of sites.
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Wakely, J. (1993). The Uses of Scanning Electron Microscopy in the Interpretation of Some Examples of Trauma in Human Skeletal Remains. In: Grupe, G., Garland, A.N. (eds) Histology of Ancient Human Bone: Methods and Diagnosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77001-2_13
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