Neolithic Family massacre. In 2011 archaeologists found 15 skeletons brutally murdered thousands of years
ago. Now, thanks to DNA analysis, scientists have confirmed that 14 of them belong to the same family.
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blunt trauma to the head from severe blows to the head─.
To try to discover when the fractures occurred, the researchers performed a
computerized tomography (CT) scan of Cioclovina's skull from all angles. The
results showed that the collapse fracture has splintered bone fragments attached to
the rest of the bone. It also expands in a concentric manner. The blow to the base of
the skull affects the foramen magnum, the hole through which all the nerve
connections pass, and the fracture continues to the spheroid, a bone deep in the face,
and appears deformed. The conclusion is that the fractures are perimortem, as if
they were postmortem (after death) there would be no plastic deformation marks on
the bone and the break would have irregular right angles.
The two fractures in Cioclovina's skull show no signs of healing, implying
that they did not have time to heal, which is why the Transylvanian skull has
intrigued scholars ever since. Two fractures in its upper part are the cause of this
interest. Many had claimed that these blows were a consequence of the passage of
time, but a group of forensic scientists who have recently re-examined this fossil,
using techniques that have been perfected based on the violent instinct of hominids,
have determined that the fractures were almost certainly caused by two severe
blows
