Past Crimes. Archaeological and Historical Evidence for Ancient Misdeeds

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iii PAST CRIMES Archaeological and Historical Evidence for Ancient Misdeeds Julie Wileman ...

iv First published in Great Britain by PEN AND SWORD ARCHAEOLOGY an imprint of Pen and Sword Books Ltd 47 Church Street Barnsley ...

v Conte nts List of Figures .. ............................................................................................. vi ...

vi List o f Fi gure s Some pollen grain varieties The carbon­14 curve Male and female skull morphology The DNA double helix Cun ...

vii List o f P late s The Tarpeian Rock Criminal being savaged by wild beasts in the Roman arena The ordeal by hot iron An‘Ulfb ...

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Chapter 1 Introduction Murder, assault, thievery, fraud–for as long as there have been groups of humans living together, these a ...

PAST CRIMES ago, and to try to determine whether a death found during excavation of an archaeological site was the result of unl ...

Archaeologists bring a number of particular skills to the table: the identification of ground disturbance from surface indicatio ...

PAST CRIMES hole, such as plant roots, fence posts or rubbish. Then the hole would be filled in–either straight away in one acti ...

often due to various forms of disturbance such as animal burrows or later site use where older material has been brought to the ...

PAST CRIMES identifications of exact species in a particular place at a particular time. Vast amounts of pollen are carried on t ...

diatoms can help to establish the environment at the time the context was buried, and can sometimes indicate the activities occu ...

PAST CRIMES After a few more days, a new fly emerges, leaving the empty pupa case behind. Each stage takes a known amount of tim ...

living things, entering through food, water, and the air we breathe. It is constantly being replaced in our tissue. But when we ...

PAST CRIMES Europe, perhaps Switzerland) but also changes in subsistence strategies and diet in ancient populations, such as the ...

notorious case of Frederick and Rosemary West, and in the search for the victims of Moors murderers Myra Hindley and Ian West.^4 ...