A Sharp Force Trauma Related Possible Homicide in Ancient Anatolia: Analytical Research

Trauma analysis is one of intriguing parts of osteoarchaeological studies.Regarding the nature of bones, it is not always easy to determine the context of the death comparing soft tissue traumas.Sharp force trauma is an important type of trauma in ancient times which relates to intra and inter-group violence.The most important questions are the timing of the trauma and the type of the instrument.Answering the first question, whether the trauma is ante-mortem, peri-mortem or post-mortem, is relatively easy compared to determining the type of the instrument which causes the trauma.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] However, most of the studies focused on the embed-