More than 2,000 years ago, a young woman on the Italian island of Sardinia died for unknown reasons.
Her body was buried face down in a tomb at the Monte Luna necropolis, the front of her skull pierced by something sharp.
Not only does the front of woman's skull have a puncture left by a quadrangular-shaped implement of some kind, the back of her skull shows signs of blunt force trauma. Her clavicle also appears have once been fractured, possibly in childhood. Strange as it seems, the condition might also explain why her skull was pierced and her body laid face down in her grave.At this time in human history,by many cultures, including the Greeks and Romans, to be the result of fumes wafting from decay organic materials in what was once termed miasma.
"The blunt force trauma after an epileptic seizure may have been the cause of death and the sharp force trauma was inflicted around this time to prevent the miasma associated with the epilepsy spreading to the community," the international team of archaeologists"The woman was then buried in the prone position, further symbolizing her aberrant life and/or death."
The face-down position of a corpse, for instance, might be a superstitious way to keep a dead person from coming back to life.
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