Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.52064/vamz.54.1.21
Evidence of interpersonal violence at two sites of the Bijelo Brdo culture in eastern Croatia
Željka Bedić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0134-5399
Abstract
Human skeletal remains from Bijelo Brdo-Venice Street and
Vukovar-Lijeva Bara have previously been anthropologically
analysed and published, but in this paper cranial traumas are
studied for the first time. The sample consists of 84 adult skulls
curated in the Natural History Museum and the Archaeological
Museum in Zagreb. Results showed a high frequency of cranial
trauma (19.0 %) recorded in 16 out of 84 well-preserved skulls.
Although males exhibit twice as many traumas as females (24.4 %
vs. 12.8 %) the difference is not statistically significant. Trauma is
present most frequently on the left side of the skull, and there
is perimortem trauma in both sites, as well as in both sexes; this
indicates the existence of interpersonal violence in these populations..
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Hrčak ID:
266460
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Publication date:
6.12.2021.
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