Skull of a 5-6-year old boy with multiple traumatic lesions from Schleinbach, Austria.
Bronze Age, c. 2000-1600 BC.
Visualisation: Lukas Waltenberger.
References: Pany-Kucera, D., et al. submitted. Motherhood, Social Relations and Violence at Schleinbach, Lower Austria: re-examining and assessing the Early Bronze Age human remains Archaeologia Austriaca.
Rebay-Salisbury, K., et al. submitted. Child murder in the Early Bronze Age: proteomic sex identification of a cold case from Schleinbach, Austria. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.
This study was undertaken within the framework of the ERC project ‘The value of mothers to society: responses to motherhood and child rearing practices in prehistoric Europe’. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 676828).
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