Charnel Houses: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
Recently in the Orkney Isles in Scotland, a charnel house has revealed more than 1,000 human bones. The remains are approximately 5,000 years old, and were found in one of […]
Category Archives: Mass Graves
The Scottish Battle for Independence
Nine skeletons have been recovered beneath the floor of the Royal Chapel at Stirling Castle. All of these remains date between the 13th and 15th centuries, which potentially means these could […]
Iron Age Mass Burial at Fin Cop
The finding of a potentially large mass burial is changing interpretations of the function of hill forts in Britain. Arhcaeologists have just begun excavations on the Iron Age hill for […]
The War of the Roses: Towton Massacre
It was March 29th, 1461, and the largest, bloodiest battle ever fought in England was transpiring. It was the Battle of Towton, and it marked a major turning point in […]
Black Death, not dead yet
The bubonic plague, known colloquially as the Black Death and scientifically as Yersinia pestis, for almost 700 years has intrigued and figuratively plagued the academic community. Accounting for the death […]
More on Duffy’s Cut
For the NPR discussion on the site visit:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127074433 This discussion argues that the men were killed by vigilantes who wanted to stop the spread of cholera after they were infected. […]
Murder or Cholera?
Duffy’s Cut, located in Pennsylvania, is the resting place of 57 Irish immigrants. The location is famous as a haunted site, with locals reporting the appearance of green and blue […]
The Missing Mortuary Masses
While the hunt for the missing link in physical anthropology is at the forefront of their studies, we mortuary and bioarchaeologists have our own missing links: mass graves. Throughout the […]
Bones Don't Lie 