This volume presents evidence and documents forms of violence and injuries in skeletal remains. Its contributions address this topic for the first time in a chr

This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license. This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing tha

This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a

The violence of the Middle Ages (and its social regulation) has already attracted the attention of historians, giving rise to something of an industry in studyi

Case studies on violent deaths from the past and present vividly illustrate how anthropologists construct meaning from the victim's bones.