"Crusader mass graves found in Lebanon" Topic
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| 42flanker | 05 Oct 2021 12:35 a.m. PST |
Communal Crusader graves found in the Lebanon "The recent discovery in Sidon, Lebanon, of crusader mass graves dating back to the 13th century – extremely rare finds – confirms the reality of the brutality of the Crusades period.
Perforated, sliced, sheered, decapitated… The entangled human remains of at least 25 individuals with numerous traumatic marks were unearthed during archaeological excavations conducted in the moat northeast of St. Louis Castle in Sidon, south of Beirut, Lebanon.""
{ARTICLE IN FRENCH}
link Original Bournemouth University research paper:
Urban warfare in the Crusades: Weapon injuries in 13th century mass grave deposits at the fortified town of Sidon (Lebanon)
Authors: Mikulski, R., Schutkowski, H., Smith, M.J. and Mitchell, P.D. eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33833 Journal: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume: 165
Pages: 177-178 |
| 42flanker | 11 Oct 2021 12:13 a.m. PST |
In red and yellow, the traces of impacts of wounds ffrom edged found on the skeletons of crusaders from the Sidon burials
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| SHaT1984 | 13 Oct 2021 10:37 a.m. PST |
Hmm, that, variety and spread doesn't really look like actual battle effects. (Or is the diag a composite of all bodies?)
More like cannibalistic dismemberment…
thanks, d |
| dapeters | 14 Oct 2021 11:41 a.m. PST |
In the other mass graves and a few individual graves many of the bodies have multiple wounds that had been from earlier conflicts, some of the wounds had been in their time near mortal. |
| 42flanker | 20 Oct 2021 10:18 a.m. PST |
I believe it is a composite survey of wounds noted. The article Southampton University document linked above will probably clarify. |
| Simo Hayha | 20 Oct 2021 10:23 p.m. PST |
that is an awful diagram. the similarity of symbols used and the choice to use only 2 colors. ridiculous. |
| 42flanker | 23 Oct 2021 7:13 a.m. PST |
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| SHaT1984 | 23 Oct 2021 1:38 p.m. PST |
>>that is an awful diagram. Academia aren't known for their usefulness [runs and hides…] |
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