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Between the 8th and 11th centuries CE, the Iberian Peninsula underwent profound upheaval due to the Umayyad invasion against the Visigoths, resulting in population shifts and lasting demographic impacts. Our understanding of this period is hindered by limited written sources and few archaeogenetic studies. We analyzed 33 individuals from Las Gobas,...
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El texto presenta los resultados de la excavación arqueológica desarrollada en 2023 en el yacimiento de Resa (Andosilla, Navarra). Los trabajos se han concentrado en el edificio E01, identificado como una iglesia de cronología medieval. Se ha procedido a delimitar la planta completa del edificio y a muestrear los materiales empleados en su construc...
This paper explores the nature and extent of conflict in Late Neolithic Europe based on expanded skeletal evidence for violence from the San Juan ante Portam Latinam rockshelter in present-day Spain (ca. 3380–3000 cal. BC). The systematic osteological re-examination has identified 65 unhealed and 89 healed traumas—of which 77 were previously undocu...
The Iberian Peninsula is a key region for understanding the Western European Upper Paleolithic, preserving long and significant stratigraphic sequences. Human remains, however, are not abundant in the Iberian record for this time period, as only three skeletons are known for the Upper Paleolithic: the Gravettian Lagar Velho individual, Azilian Los...
Although the investigation of human rights cases often comes late, especially with regard to living relatives, the current investigations searching for victims of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and the Francoist regime that followed until the 1970s also comes now with better methods of search and identification, which would not have been availab...
Se presentan algunas reflexiones sobre los procedimientos metodológicos empleados para realizar las exhumaciones de la Guerra Civil en Navarra y su validez ante procesos administrativos y/o judiciales, de conformidad al plan establecido con carácter oficial por el Gobierno foral. Lo anterior ha permitido un avance significativo en lo que respecta a...
In the context of exhumations of individuals who died during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), since the year 2000, over 780 mass graves have been excavated using archaeological methodology and following forensic protocols. Most of the recovered more than 9600 bodies have tended to be from the Republican civil population, the majority having been...
Resumen La interpretación tradicional del Neolítico en las zonas interiores venía definida por su marginalidad demográ-fica y su relación exclusiva con grupos ganaderos muy poco sedentarios. Las especiales características de conservación de dos de los yacimientos más interiores en los que hemos inter-venido recientemente, el dolmen de Azután y el t...
In this study, we present our experience in the genetic identification of skeletal remains recovered from graves of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and posterior dictatorship (until 1970s). Up to now, we have carried out the genetic analysis of more than 500 human remains from graves located in the Spanish territory, particularly from the norther...
The taphonomic condition of human remains is assessed widely with subjective terminology
relating to the quantity of a skeleton found and the quality of the bones recovered. Here we present a revised method that allows for a more standardised and objective approach. We have tested this new technique on a forensic sample originating from a cemetery...
Based on the exhumation of two mass graves conducted in small villages in Navarra, Spain, we will address the history of the most numerous prison breakout in Europe and the methodology used to find, exhume and identify the individuals thereof. In 1938, two years into the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), 795 prisoners overpowered and escaped the surpr...
Se publican tres tumbas de una necrópolis inédita de la etapa visigoda (s. VI-VIII d.C), descubierta en Puente la Reina, (Navarra, España). Se describe, junto a otras paleopatologías, el caso más antiguo de lepra identificado en España.
The discovery in 1995 of the skeletons of fi ve young individuals dating to the seventh–eighth centuries AD in the Lower
Gallery at La Garma, a place that is only accessible by descending two shafts 7m and 13m deep, provided solid archaeological
evidence for the use of natural caves in Cantabria (northern Spain) for burial during the early medieval...
This chapter describes the mass grave of La Pedraja and the scientific analysis of the many preserved saponified brains found in this context. The saponified brains dating from the Spanish Civil War, it is assumed that chemical and microbiological changes were involved. In order to understand the brain preservation and undertake forensic analysis,...
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During the excavation of the Spanish Civil War mass grave at La Pedraja (Burgos, Spain), 104 individuals were found interred within it, 45 of which displayed brains that were preserved but dehydrated and reduced in size. This exceptional finding has resulted in the formation of a multidisciplinary team, with the aim of obtaining as much information...
The exhumation of graves of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Franco dictatorship until 1975 has meant something more than a task
for experts in Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology.
Since 2000, more than 400 mass graves have been opened and about 8,000 skeletons have been recovered. This has raised public awareness
about an injustice that...
Bronze Age studies carried out in the Cantabrian Region have traditionally focused on prestige goods and funerary contexts. As a result of this, the lack of information about daily activities, subsistence strategies, and human settlement on a regional scale is evident in the state of art. However, current research has achieved new discoveries in re...
Catálogo de la exposición celebrada en 2016 en el Museo de San Telmo (Donostia/San Sebastián): "San Adrián: El túnel del tiempo. De la última glaciación al camino de Santiago a través de la Historia de Gipuzkoa".
Objetivo: Durante el mes de febrero del 2015 se realizó una intervención arqueológica en la
cripta de la Iglesia conventual de las Trinitarias Descalzas de Madrid con objeto de hallar los
restos mortales de Miguel de Cervantes.
Material y Métodos: La excavación reveló la existencia de un cementerio infantil que se
exhumó en su totalidad, con un tot...
In the past decade, interest has grown in Spain with regard to recovering the remains of the victims of the Civil War and the Francoist regime that followed. With the arrival of democracy in Spain in 1978, numerous exhumations were undertaken although unfortunately without technical or institutional support, and hence little information is availabl...
Since 2000, numerous exhumations have taken place in Spain in response to a historical memory protest movement related to the Civil War and the Dictatorship of General Francisco Franco. It is estimated that over the last decade, 379 graves have been exhumed, from which 6,680 skeletons have been recovered and studied from a forensic perspective.
Tho...
At the end of the 19th century, concern about the identity of soldiers injured or killed in battle motivated the creation of an identification system with metal discs that hung from the neck or were worn around the wrist. It was the soldiers themselves who were afraid of dying without an identity.
Personal identification plates have had a long trad...
At the end of the 19th century, concern about the identity of soldiers injured or killed in battle motivated the creation of an identification system with metal discs that hung from the neck or were worn around the wrist. It was the soldiers themselves who were afraid of dying without an identity. Personal identification plates have had a long trad...
Since 2000, numerous exhumations have taken place in Spain in response to a historical memory protest movement related to the Civil War and the Dictatorship of General Francisco Franco. It is estimated that over the last decade, 379 graves have been exhumed, from which 6,680 skeletons have been recovered and studied from a forensic perspective. Tho...
The presence of autopsy marks in human skeletal remains indicates a medicolegal procedure related to ascertaining the cause and manner of death. We present here four cases where signs of autopsy were observed in the remains recovered from mass graves and cemeteries of prisoners from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), victims of extrajudicial execut...
The results of the investigation carried out into a mass grave in the town of Aibar, Navarre, the burial site of four people murdered in 1936, are presented. Based on existing documents and anthropological and genetic analysis, the report establishes the identity of the victims and the cause of death related to injuries inflicted by gunshot.
Se pr...
Human skeletal remains belonging to two newborn children were recovered from a side passage in Cueva 2741 in Matienzo. The archaeological study has shown that the remains are relatively modern and both neonates come from the same maternal lineage; it is therefore reasonable to conclude they are siblings and probably twins.
Se presentan los resulta...
In the excavations on the grounds of the shrine of Our Lady of Assumption in Ocio (Zambrana, Alava-Araba) in 2010, there were found 48 individual tombs and a collective burial. The latter was a mass grave with 13 male remains who had died in a violent event. All of them showed skull and/or body wounds possibly produced by lead firearm projectiles....
Se presentan los resultados de la investigación llevada a cabo en una fosa común situada en la localidad de Aibar (Navarra), en donde fueron inhumadas cuatro personas que fueron asesinadas en 1936. De conformidad a las fuentes documentales existentes así como al estudio antropológico y genético, se establece la identidad y la causa de la muerte rel...
In the course of a sondage dug in the rock shelter of J3, in the Jaizkibel mountains (at the north-western tip of Guipúzcoa), the body of a adult man was located buried inside a shell midden. This shell midden had not been disturbed and presented internal stratigraphy features. In any case, the outer edge of the shell midden does show some interest...
El presente estudio expone los resultados obtenidos del análisis osteológico de alrededor de 200 individuos represaliados durante la Guerra Civil Española, exhumados en diversas fosas comunes localizadas principalmente en la provincia de Burgos, pero también en otras provincias como Navarra y Palencia. Se analizaron de manera descriptiva las lesion...
In the course of a sondage dug in the rock shelter of J3, in the Jaizkibel mountains (at the northwestern tip of Guipúzcoa), the body of a adult man was located buried inside a shell midden. This shell midden had not been disturbed and presented internal stratigraphy features. In any case, the outer edge of the shell midden does show some interesti...
In the course of the archaeological dig carried out in the north of the municipal district of Ciempozuelos (Province of Madrid) in 2002 and 2003 two sites were documented: one from the chalcolithic period named Buzanca 1, and another large settlement from the high mediaeval-Visigoth time period named Buzanca 2. Also, in the northern sector of the p...
This paper describes a human cranium with a serious traumatism followed by survival that was found in the context of a burial cave together with other human remains affected by fire. This funerary site has similar characteristics to other deposits in caves during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in northern Spain.
The signs of pathology that are observed on the human remains in the archaeological sounding in Parque de Murgia (Astigarraga, Gipuzkoa) are analyzed. They correspond with some individual burials of the XIX century and one mass grave dated at the end of XVIII century or at the beginning of the XIX century. Some of the pathological signs are related...
Las investigaciones sobre Paleopatología en el País Vasco dan comienzo en la década de los años 80 y se enmarcan en los estudios de Paleoantropología de larga tradición en este medio. La metodología y sistemática empleada en estas investigaciones, como disciplina históri-co médica, es la propia de la Antropología en las Ciencias Forenses. Para ello...
No es infrecuente que en el contexto de excavaciones arqueológicas se localicen unos huesos específicamente trabajados en forma para-lepípeda que han sido interpretados como elementos de carácter mágico o simbólico por desconocimiento de su verdadera función. En realidad, estas piezas de hueso se utilizaban como yunque para obtener el dentado en la...
En diciembre de 1985, en el curso de un paseo por Jaizkibel en los que recogía habitualmente material arqueológico, D. Juan San Martín localizó el abrigo de J3. Poco más tarde, remitió los restos arqueológicos recogidos en superficie en este lugar a la Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi, en su sede del Museo de San Telmo, junto a las coordenadas del hal...
This paper offers a reflection on the social, cultural and chronological implications of the funeral world of the inland Tagus basin. In particular the data of the province of Toledo, analysed from the site of the megaliths of Azutan and the burial mound of the Castillejo, allows us to propose the contemporaneity of several architectural types in t...
The macroscopic description of lesions continues to be one of the fundamental parts of paleopathological studies. Under the same heading, we present a mummy with a hunchback of the vertebral column which can be ascribed to a cifosis angular condition. The results of a radiographic study suggests the existence of a selective destruction of the spina...
The results of the excavation, carried out in 1995, of the archaeological deposit of Nardakoste IV (Oñati, Basque Country) are exposed. The site is a burial cave where at least 14 individuals of both sexes and diverse ages were inhumed. Although any artifact was recovered, a dating by C14 (3810 ± 65 BP) suggests the cave was used by the end of the...
Contrariamente a lo que cabría esperar, las evidencias de la Enfermedad de Hansen, o lepra, en restos esqueléticos no se han descrito en la Península Ibérica desde la Paleopatología. Se presenta un caso atribuido a esta enfermedad en uno de los individuos procedentes de la necrópolis altomedieval de Gomacín (Puente la Reina), que fueron recuperados...
Mummifield bodies in the Basque Country (Spain).
The Iberian Peninsula, due to its geographic position and mild climate with high summer temperatures, is a rather good place for spontaneous mummification processes to take place. These environmental favourable conditions are diminished by a transit form North to South which can be considered as fundamental.
Thus, in the Cantabrian and South Pyrene...
The skeletal remains of two individuals were found in the Kobazar Cave (Ataun, the Basque Country). This cave is among those identified as belonging to the Bronze Age in the province of Guipúzcoa. The human remains were discovered in 1978. The skeletons were found in a small gallery in the cave and showed signs of considerable concretion from calci...
This work takes as its subject the communication of the results of de Archaeological excavation in the Iruaxpe Cave (Aretxabaleta,
prov. Guipúzcoa) which took place in 1983.
The cave had a collective burial site, situated in a narrow gallery. Here, in one particular level, abundant human remains —unsettled
and very fagmented — were found which corr...
