期刊
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
卷 72, 期 -, 页码 25-43出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2016.06.001
关键词
Taphonomy; Bone breakage; Atapuerca; Interpersonal violence
资金
- University of Tubingen
- Junta de Castilla y Leon
- Fundacion Atapuerca
- MINECO [CGL2012-38434-C03-01, CGL2015-65387-C3-2-P]
- University of Tubingen [UNESCO 1347021/3900/3034003301]
- Real Academia de Doctores de Espana
- SYNTHESYS Project - European Community [FR-TAF-5135]
The Sima de los Huesos (SH) site has provided the largest collection of hominin crania in the fossil record, offering an unprecedented opportunity to perform a complete Forensic-Taphonomic study on a population from the Middle Pleistocene. The fractures found in seventeen crania from SH display a postmortem fracturation pattern, which occurred in the dry bone stage and is compatible with collective burial assemblages. Nevertheless, in addition to the postmortem fractures, eight crania also display some typical perimortem traumas. By using CT images we analyzed these fractures in detail. Interpersonal violence as a cause for the perimortem fractures can be confirmed for one of the skulls, Cranium 17 and also probable for Cranium 5 and Cranium 11. For the rest of the crania, although other causes cannot be absolutely ruled out, the violence-related traumas are the most plausible scenario for the perimortem fractures. If this hypothesis is confirmed, we could interpret that interpersonal violence was a recurrent behavior in this population from the Middle Pleistocene. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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