Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; Archaeo-anthropological research in Thasos island; Aspects of the human condition decoded through analysis of the osteological record; Palaeopathological differential diagnosis: Not a sternal foramen; Identification and reproduction of the weapon type and component which was used to pierce through the corpus sterni; The anatomic consequences of the trauma impact by the thrusting of the styrax into the mediastinum, and assessment on the cause of death; Experimental archaeometry through Physics, testing for data relevant to a styrax thrusting into the thorax; Trauma interpretation and discussion of causes for the execution of the Thasian; Epilogue.