Culturally Determined Patterns of Violence: Biological Anthropological Investigations at a Historic Urban Cemetery

Patterns of violence and the type and distribution of resulting injuries are highly culturally specific. In this study, skeletal data from a historic cemetery (St. Martin's, England) are combined with contemporary sources and modern clinical data to enable the patterning of violence‐related injuries to be interpreted. Particular consideration was given to the possibility of a relationship between commonly occurring types of violence and those …