Abstract
This chapter presents the results of a study on the occurrence of cranial trauma in a sub-Neolithic maritime hunter-gatherer population on the island of Gotland, in the central Baltic Sea. The material derives from cemeteries of the Pitted Ware Culture, the last hunter-gatherers of southern Scandinavia. A total of 109 adult crania were analysed (fifty-seven males and fifty-two females). Evidence for trauma was found in 14% of the males and 7.7% of the females analysed. However, with the exception of one female cranium, all showed evidence of healing.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones |
| Subtitle of host publication | Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective |
| Editors/authors | Rick J Schulting, Linda Fibiger |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-19-957306-6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Archaeology
Free keywords
- interpersonal violence
- human skeletons
- Pitted War Culture
- hunter-gatherers
- cranial trauma
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