Ill-Treatment of Women in Ancient Rome: Contribution of Paleopathology to the Reconstruction of Violence. A Case Report.

The article presents the study which examined a human skeletal remains affected by multiple inflicted traumas. The remains was discovered in 2002 during an excavation led by the Special Superintendence to Archaeological Heritage of Rome in the Collatina necropolis in Rome, Italy. It cites the conduct of paleopathological diagnoses through macroscopic and X-ray examination.