Hi Jennifer

Maybe this can help:

M. Tempelmann-Mączyńska 1992; "Specyficzne pochówki" kultury wielbarskiej; Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Archaeologica, 16: 191-199.

http://repozytorium.uni.lodz.pl:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11089/7561/Folia%20Archaeologica%2016%201992%20188-196.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Best Regards

Maciej Wawrzczak

See attached several relevant excerpts from publications, etc:

Additional relevant excerpts (most about the famous buried leg of Mexican General & President, Santa Anna):

More concerning Santa Anna's leg:

Jennifer,

have you looked into burials of body parts relating to medieval places of penal mutilation and execution? There is a good overview of such sites in Germany and Switzerland by Jost Auler, called "Richtstaettenarchaeologie" (i.e. archaeology of places of execution). If this is something you think might help, I can dig up the precise reference.

Cheers, Michael

Hi Jennifer,

my comment might be too simple but one has to consider also postdepositional disturbances. I have seen a few cases in medieval and early historic cemeteries where limbs were located in isolated context. The problem was that stratigraphy was very complicated (several layers of burials above each other) and it was hard to discern whether it was an intentional act or result of later activities when digging of a later grave resulted in cutting through the earlier body.

So, I am just trying to say that in case where one does not have high quality contextual information and palaeopathological observations are equivocal (as usual), postdepositional processes should not be ruled out as a factors that produced 'amputated limbs'

Best,

Daniel

Check out the work by John W Verano who works in Pre-Columbian Peruvian contexts. There is quite a bit. He is on researchgate.

Hi Jennifer,

there's one case from LBK cemetry in Vedrovice (CZ), grave 82/79.

Podborský, V. (ed.) 2002: Dvě pohřebiště neolitického lidu s lineární keramikou ve Vedrovicích na Moravě. Brno. (in Czech, resumé in German). And some more info on Google:)

Best

František

Hi Jennifer,

It's not necessarily the best source of examples/case studies, but I found the discussions in the book Body Parts and Bodies Whole very interesting in this area.

You can find contents etc. here:

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/body-parts-and-bodies-whole.html

Best wishes,

Izzy

S. P. Zäuner, J. Wahl, Y. Boyadziev and I. Aslanis, A 6000-Year-Old Hand Amputation from Bulgaria—The Oldest Case from South-East Europe? In: Int. J. Osteoarchaeol. 23: 618–625.

Hi Jennifer,

I studied a case of an individual buried in a "sigillate" capucine tomb from a 5th century cemetery where wre prent only the upper limb in anatomical connection (femur tibiae, peronae, patellae  and feet). At this moment is unpublished even if I present this case to AAA meeting in Chicago.

Let me know if you want further information about it.

Best

mauro

In a tomb at Dayr al-Barsha, Middle Egypt, Marleen De Meyer discovered a body with amputated feet in which one amputated had been interred with the body inside the tomb. See Tosha Dupras, Lana Williams, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts Abt. Kairo 65 (2009), p. 409-410 and T.L. Dupras, L.J. Williams, M. De Meyer, C. Peeters, D. Depraetere, B. Vanthuyne, H. Willems, ‘Evidence of Amputation as Medical Treatment in Ancient Egypt,’ International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2009). www.interscience.wiley.com DOI: 10.1002/oa.1061. (IF publication year : 0.8) (IF most recent (March 2013): 0.96.

I published a case of bilateral forefoot amputation from Romano-British England. See Caroline M. Stuckert and Morrie Kricun, 'A case of bilateral forefront amputation from the Romano-British cemetery of Lankhills, Winchester, UK', International Journal of Paleopathology 1 (2011), 111-116. Also in Stuckert (ed.) The People of Early Winchester, Winchester Studies vol. 9.1, Clarendon Press, due out 20 Oct in the UK and 20 Dec. in the US, Katie Tucker has published two additional finger amputations from the same site. Volume is currently available for pre-order on the Oxford University website and Amazon.com.

1948 guide for Catholic physicians on disposal of amputated members

Hi. Im fron Russia. Volgograd. I have one case of hand amputation. Burial dating middle sarmatian time. I-II c. a.d.  But not published.

Dear Jennifer,

I am working on a site dated 4-5th century CE from Central Italy in which in a cappuccine tomb perfectly closed there were only the inferior limbs in a perfect state of preservation and in anatomical connection.  At this moment the site is partially published.

It is a common issue in the Southern Andes to find heads (severed from the bodies) and also members  buried . Check  the attached file ( paper in Spanish)  especially the figure 6- 4

Hi,

We have published one case of amputations feet and hand in archaeological context

https://dspace.uevora.pt/rdpc/bitstream/10174/21339/1/Three%20cases%20of%20feet%20and%20hand%20amputation%20from%20Medieval%20Estremoz%2C%20Portugal.pdf