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Specific Skeletal Injuries as a Proxy for Domestic Violence (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Shevan Wilkin. Ignacio A Lazagabaster.

The prevalence of violence in past societies is generally assessed through observable skeletal trauma. Common contexts of violence vary from culture to culture, and differences in acceptable forms of violence can be evident after documenting the different shapes, locations, and stages of healing of injuries. Contemporary cross-cultural studies show the physical effects of household violence primarily display on the middle third of the face in female victims, can commonly cause concomitant...