How we can learn from analysing trauma in past societies

Abstract

In this issue, we have some fascinating papers that vividly bring to light the interplay between trauma and death in past populations. One study examines the remains of German bomber crews who died during the Battle of Britain from 1940 (Verna et al., 2022). We might expect that some of those aircraft who made it back to their airfields in northern France carried dead or dying airmen with injuries sustained from anti-aircraft fire or rounds from Spitfire and Hurricane fighter aircraft. Others would have sustained their injuries during