Una fosa común en el interior de Argentina: el Cementerio de San Vicente

Forensic anthropology had a fundamental role to play in the process of investigations about StateTerrorism in Argentina during the last century, and still does: that of exhuming the unidentified bodiesstill buried in common and individual graves and of analyzing the recovered remains towards theirid...

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Main Authors: Darío Olmo, Mercedes Salado Puerto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Museo de Antropologia 2008-09-01
Series:Revista del Museo de Antropologia
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Online Access:http://publicaciones.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/7/15
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Summary:Forensic anthropology had a fundamental role to play in the process of investigations about StateTerrorism in Argentina during the last century, and still does: that of exhuming the unidentified bodiesstill buried in common and individual graves and of analyzing the recovered remains towards theiridentification and determination of the cause of death. In the case described here, forensicanthropological and archaeological skills were essential in locating the mass graves at San Vicente,Córdoba, distinguishing among disappeared and non-disappeared dead, determining identity, andreconstructing the manner in which the disappeared were killed
ISSN:1852-060X
1852-4826