Who else loves the TV-Show Bones? I am a big fan of this TV series. So no wonder that I liked the paper of Stian Suppersberger Hamre et al. (PLOS One, July, 2017). Like "Bones" they used human bones to reconstract the life-story of the individual. The only difference to the TV show is that they don't do this in order to catch a murder. Stian Suppersberger Hamre et al. do this for Sience. They analysed the skeletons of three individuals who lived in Trondheim (Norway) during the 13th century. They used different methods (skeletal examinations, genetic and stable oxygen isotope analyses) to analyse where and when they may were born, when they moved to Trondheim, how they looked like and if they had any illnesses. The result is a really interesting paper with three life-stories which show the variety of Trondheim citizens in the 13th century. They all had different birth places... one maybe even came from the Alps in Germany. They all died "young" in their 20s-30s. One even had a head surgery and survived it, which was not so common at this time. Great paper... a little bit like a story book! "Three individuals, three stories, three burials from medieval Trondheim, Norway."
Stian Suppersberger Hamre, et al. PLoS One 12.7 (2017): e0180277.
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