Mikellide Maria
Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) in Cyprus, PO Box 21642, Nicosia, 1590, Cyprus.
J Forensic Sci. 2014 Sep;59(5):1184-90. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.12523. Epub 2014 Jun 27.
The island of Cyprus experienced two periods of intercommunal conflict during which c. 2000 individuals went missing. The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus began a program of exhumations in 2005, through which more than 185 burial sites pertaining to the two periods of conflict have been identified and excavated. The aim of this study was twofold: (i) to present a classification of the main types of clandestine burial and (ii) to test the hypothesis that the nature of conflict influences the mode of interment. Burials can be divided into "public burials" and "concealed burials," based on the possible motives of those involved in the interment and then subdivided into smaller categories based on similarities in archeological context. A comparison of results from the two periods of conflict reveals that there are statistical differences (p < 0.005), which indicate that the mode of interment may reflect the nature, character, and atmosphere of conflict.
塞浦路斯岛经历了两个族群间冲突时期，在此期间约2000人失踪。塞浦路斯失踪人员委员会于2005年启动了一项挖掘计划，通过该计划已确定并挖掘了与这两个冲突时期相关的185多个埋葬地点。本研究的目的有两个：（i）对秘密埋葬的主要类型进行分类；（ii）检验冲突性质影响埋葬方式这一假设。根据参与埋葬者的可能动机，埋葬可分为“公共埋葬”和“隐蔽埋葬”，然后根据考古背景的相似性再细分为更小的类别。对两个冲突时期的结果进行比较后发现存在统计学差异（p < 0.005），这表明埋葬方式可能反映了冲突的性质、特点和氛围。
