Forensics of medieval warfare

Bradford University has an international reputation in paleopathology -- using skeletal remains to discover information about how a person died, how healthy they were, what they ate and where they lived.

Its academics played a key role in examining the findings from a mass grave in Towton, near Tadcaster, where the bodies of 38 soldiers from the War of the Roses were recovered.

Last week archaeology experts from 40 countries around the world, flocked to Yorkshire for a two-week course looking at Bradford University's findings.

Dr Knusel demonstrated how trauma injuries on the bone showed how the soldiers were injured in hand-to-hand combat with hand held weapons.

Full article here. The Towton Mass Grave Project website is here.

Posted by David on August 27, 2008 10:56 PM