Il contributo delle indagini biologiche e chimico-fisiche alla ricerca storico-archeologica. Alcuni casi di studio dal territorio modenese

In recent decades, scientific methodologies have revolutionized the approach to the study of archaeological evidence, helping to extract additional and sometimes unique information from them, for the purpose of reconstructing the past. An important impulse to these investigations was given by the application of the most advanced biological, bio-molecular and chemical-physical techniques to bioarchaeological finds and, in particular to human remains. After a brief review of the scientific methodologies widely used in this field, three case studies from the Modena area are presented: the study about the remains of Pico della Mirandola, the project about the Roccapelago mummies and the case of violent deaths of the necropolis of via Ciro Menotti (Modena).