Sublimi Saponetti Sandro, Scattarella Vito, Di Nunno Cosimo, Emanuel Patrizia, Di Nunno Nunzio
Dipartimento di Zoologia, Sezione di Antropologia, Università degli Studi di Bari, via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy.
Forensic Sci Int. 2008 Apr 7;176(2-3):e11-6. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.07.015. Epub 2007 Sep 19.
The authors present the case of an adult male (20-25 years) with a stature of 175 cm and a body mass of 68 kg, showing many wounds caused by both stabbing and cutting weapons. The subject was found in a tomb in the archeological area on the hill of San Pietro (Canosa, Bari), where there is a Paleo-Christian site dating back to the 6th-7th century a.d. The skeleton shows clear signs of decapitation, due not to an execution but to a fight during a battle.