[Dating the time of death of an unknown individual on the basis of remnants of material culture--a case study].
The anthropological laboratory of the Forensic Medicine Department PAM carries out a lot of cases concerning identification on the basis of skeletal remains. Standard procedures are: anthropological analysis, estimation of time of burial of the remains, characteristics of morbid changes and the cause of death as well as skull based face reconstruction and super-projection. Very often some tiny details can be useful while answering questions relating to the origin of the remains, time of death, or identity of an unknown individual. In the described case, the key method was analysis of two pieces of clothing found inside the skull.
Agnieszka
A
Kempińska
Andrzej
A
Ossowski
Lukasz
L
Szydłowski
D003020:Clothing; D018732:Forensic Anthropology / Q000379:methods*; D049429:Forensic Pathology / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D011044:Poland; D012886:Skull; D013997:Time Factors