A multidisciplinary approach in the individualization of skeletonized bodies from a common grave
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https://doi.org/10.60007/antistio.4554Keywords:
individualization, skeletonized bodie, origin, osteometry, morphology, taphonomy and mass graveAbstract
This article aims to show the results of an interdisciplinary work by means of which the identification of three bodies that had lost the anatomical relationship of much of its structures was achieved.
Some suggestions are proposed for approaching cases with these characteristics, emphasizing that they are not rigid but rather purely optional, since its applicability is strongly related to certain variables, being the state of conservation, as well as the morphological and osteometric variation of the structures, the most decisive. It also highlights the importance of a maximum of individualization, as a minimum requirement before conducting any analysis or forensic study on the bodies.
Author Biography
Edgar Hernando Bernal González, Grupo Nacional de Patología Forense
Antropólogo, Especialista en Antropología Forense. Grupo Nacional de Patología Forense. Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses.
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