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"We Are the Sons of Our Own Deeds": Comparing Skeletal Health and Frailty Indices in Deceased Individuals Across 2000 Years of Milanese History. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives In bioarchaeology, the concepts of resilience and frailty, and their quantification through indices, have gathered significant attention. This study is the first to apply, evaluate, and compare skeletal frailty indices and aims to trace frailty over time while identifying methodological challenges in their use on a sample ...
Petrosino   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Mercury poisoning in two patients with tertiary syphilis from the Ca’ Granda hospital (17th‐century Milan)

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 500-510, April 2022., 2022
Abstract Syphilis was a widespread infectious disease in 17th‐century Italy, commonly treated with mercury‐based ointments and fumigations. Few reports exist on the analysis of abnormally high Hg levels in bone as a result of exposure to mercury‐containing anti‐syphilitic medicine. In this research, two crania recovered among the 2.9 million commingled
Lucie Biehler‐Gomez   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

An osteometric and 3D analysis of the atlanto‐occipital joint: An initial screening method to exclude crania and atlases in commingled remains

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 177, Issue 3, Page 439-453, March 2022., 2022
Selection of the ROI from the superior face of atlas obtained with the VAM software. In the blue panel is depicted the over 200 points positioned in the articular surface contour in order to select the area of interest. The red panel shows the final representation of the selected area of interest: the superior articular surfaces of atlas remaining in ...
Annalisa Cappella   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Melancholy of Bones: Forensic Exhumation as an Elegiac Transformative Experience

open access: yesEthos, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 264-285, September 2021., 2021
Abstract Since the early 1990s, forensic exhumation of mass graves in the wake of violent conflict has become an increasingly important humanitarian intervention. Exhumation has two stated aims: to document evidence of atrocity for judicial proceedings and to return bodies to families to bring psychological closure.
Alexa Hagerty
wiley   +1 more source

Finding a way to live with the past: ‘self‐repair’, ‘informal repair’, and reparations in transitional justice

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 455-480, September 2021., 2021
Abstract Reparations are widely regarded as a key element of dealing with the past in transitional justice. Over the past three decades, there has been a plethora of state practice, jurisprudence, and international norms requiring states and other responsible actors to redress victims’ harm.
SUNNEVA GILMORE, LUKE MOFFETT
wiley   +1 more source

Promotion of The Human Skeletal Heritage: A Milanese Perspective

open access: yesLanx, 2015
The history and cultural heritage of a city can be evaluated not only through the study of the works of art, artifacts or buildings, but also through the examination of the remains of persons who walked the city in the past millennia.
Cristina Cattaneo, Daniele Gibelli
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of Efficiency and Effectiveness of Mastoid Process Triangle Anthropometry for Sex Estimation in Brazilian Skulls [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Existe uma corrente de pensamento em antropologia forense de que métodos antropométricos têm menos subjetividade e menores erros intra e interobservadores, quando comparados com métodos de tomada de decisões.
Arrabaça Francisco, Raffaela   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Aprendizaje basado en problemas para enseñar antropología forense en educación secundaria

open access: yesAlteridad : Revista de Educación, 2023
El creciente interés por el Grado en Criminología en los últimos años se ha debido principalmente a la emisión de series con temas forenses. Estas han generado una imagen distorsionada de la antropología forense que se ha traducido principalmente en un ...
María Cristina Fernández-Laso   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Monitoring the missing: Trends in the phenomenon of disappearances in Italy, 2019–2022 [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Health and Social Sciences
Background: Missing persons represent a critical issue in Italy with significant social and forensic implications.
Methods: Data from the Extraordinary Commissioner for Missing Persons were analyzed for 2019–2022 by year, region, sex, age, and ...
Laura DONATO   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

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