TY - JOUR
T1 - Sharp force trauma to a 1,000-year-old skull from the Jerusalem mountains
AU - Nagar, Yossi
AU - Cohen, Haim
AU - Zissu, Boaz
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Well-preserved human skull, two upper vertebral bodies, and bones of the right hand were found in a remote cave in the Jerusalem mountains. The individual was identified as an adult male, 30–40 years old, who was C-14 dated to the 11th century. It was attributed to the local, Bedouin population. The skull manifested four sharp force trauma lesions, resulted from interpersonal violence in different occasions: Two represent past events, one is peri-mortem, and one is the direct cause of death. The current manuscript describes the pathologies and discusses possible interpretations, which combine physical anthropology with archaeology, history, and ethnography altogether.
AB - Well-preserved human skull, two upper vertebral bodies, and bones of the right hand were found in a remote cave in the Jerusalem mountains. The individual was identified as an adult male, 30–40 years old, who was C-14 dated to the 11th century. It was attributed to the local, Bedouin population. The skull manifested four sharp force trauma lesions, resulted from interpersonal violence in different occasions: Two represent past events, one is peri-mortem, and one is the direct cause of death. The current manuscript describes the pathologies and discusses possible interpretations, which combine physical anthropology with archaeology, history, and ethnography altogether.
KW - Bedouins
KW - blood vengeance
KW - cut marks
KW - palaeopathology
KW - trauma
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U2 - 10.1002/oa.2716
DO - 10.1002/oa.2716
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AN - SCOPUS:85055029042
SN - 1047-482X
VL - 29
SP - 162
EP - 167
JO - International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
JF - International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
IS - 1
ER -