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Imprint: | Wiley, 2024 |
Description: | 35 pàg. |
Abstract: | Objectives To test a hypothesis on interpersonal violence events during the transition between Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in the Eastern Pyrenees, to contextualize it in Western Europe during that period, and to assess if these marks can be differentiated from secondary funerary treatment. Materials and Methods Metric and non-metric methods were used to estimate the age-at-death and sex of the skeletal remains. Perimortem injuries were observed and analyzed with stereomicroscopy and confocal microscopy. Results Among the minimum of 51 individuals documented, at least six people showed evidence of perimortem trauma. All age groups and both sexes are represented in the skeletal sample, but those with violent injuries are predominantly males. Twenty-six bones had 49 injuries, 48 of which involved sharp force trauma on postcranial elements, and one example of blunt force trauma on a cranium. The wounds were mostly located on the upper extremities and ribs, anterior and posterior. Several antemortem lesions were also documented in the assemblage. Discussion The perimortem lesions, together with direct dating, suggest that more than one episode of interpersonal violence took place between the Late Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age in northeastern Spain. The features of the sharp force trauma indicate that different weapons were used, including sharp metal objects and lithic projectiles. The Roc de les Orenetes assemblage represents a scenario of recurrent lethal confrontation in a high mountain geographic context, representing the evidence of inferred interpersonal violence located at the highest altitude settings in the Pyrenees, at 1836 meters above sea level. |
Grants: | Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2021-SGR01237 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2021-SGR-01239 Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional FPU18-02291 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad PID2021-122355NBC32 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-000945-M Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación RYC2020-029404-I |
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Language: | Anglès |
Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
Subject: | Perimortem trauma ; Pyrenees ; Metal weapons ; Lithic projectile ; Paleopathology |
Published in: | American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2024, e24909, ISSN 2692-7691 |
35 p, 34.5 MB |