Zvonka Zupanič Slavec NEW METHOD OF IDENTIFYING FAMILY RELATED SKULLS: FORENSIC MEDICINE, ANTHROPOLOGY, EPIGENETICS.

Abstract

People often wonder about the usefulness of medical history. It is true that pathography can provide us with a better insight into certain historical events and personalities, but, deprived of the possibility of exact confirmation, medicohistorical speculations most often remain just an interesting but vague constructions. Therefore, especially appreciated have to be those attempts that combine medical-history knowledge with physical and biochemical arsenal, as it was done at recent investigations of the remnants of the Nephertiti mummy or of the mistery of Napoleon's death. In our region, such attempts are extremely rare, not only because there are very few persons skilled at such an interdisciplinary task, but also because there are few centers equipped at performing more complex physical-anthropological analyzes.