The last battle of Anne of Brittany: Solving mass grave through an interdisciplinary approach (paleopathology, biological anthropology, history, multiple isotopes and radiocarbon dating).
Mass graves are usually key historical markers with strong incentive for archeological investigations. The identification of individuals buried in mass graves has long benefitted from traditional historical, archaeological, anthropological and paleopathological techniques. The addition of novel meth...
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| author | Rozenn Colleter Clément P Bataille Henri Dabernat Daniel Pichot Philippe Hamon Sylvie Duchesne Françoise Labaune-Jean Stéphane Jean Gaétan Le Cloirec Stefania Milano Manuel Trost Sven Steinbrenner Marine Marchal Céline Guilbeau-Frugier Norbert Telmon Éric Crubézy Klervia Jaouen |
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| description | Mass graves are usually key historical markers with strong incentive for archeological investigations. The identification of individuals buried in mass graves has long benefitted from traditional historical, archaeological, anthropological and paleopathological techniques. The addition of novel methods including genetic, genomic and isotopic geochemistry have renewed interest in solving unidentified mass graves. In this study, we demonstrate that the combined use of these techniques allows the identification of the individuals found in two Breton historical mass graves, where one method alone would not have revealed the importance of this discovery. The skeletons likely belong to soldiers from the two enemy armies who fought during a major event of Breton history: the siege of Rennes in 1491, which ended by the wedding of the Duchess of Brittany with the King of France and signaled the end of the independence of the region. Our study highlights the value of interdisciplinary approaches with a particular emphasis on increasingly accurate isotopic markers. The development of the sulfur isoscape and testing of the triple isotope geographic assignment are detailed in a companion paper [13]. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6a583dbd5ffa49f69ad705c0c0ac180f2025-08-20T03:00:49ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032021-01-01165e024808610.1371/journal.pone.0248086The last battle of Anne of Brittany: Solving mass grave through an interdisciplinary approach (paleopathology, biological anthropology, history, multiple isotopes and radiocarbon dating).Rozenn ColleterClément P BatailleHenri DabernatDaniel PichotPhilippe HamonSylvie DuchesneFrançoise Labaune-JeanStéphane JeanGaétan Le CloirecStefania MilanoManuel TrostSven SteinbrennerMarine MarchalCéline Guilbeau-FrugierNorbert TelmonÉric CrubézyKlervia JaouenMass graves are usually key historical markers with strong incentive for archeological investigations. The identification of individuals buried in mass graves has long benefitted from traditional historical, archaeological, anthropological and paleopathological techniques. The addition of novel methods including genetic, genomic and isotopic geochemistry have renewed interest in solving unidentified mass graves. In this study, we demonstrate that the combined use of these techniques allows the identification of the individuals found in two Breton historical mass graves, where one method alone would not have revealed the importance of this discovery. The skeletons likely belong to soldiers from the two enemy armies who fought during a major event of Breton history: the siege of Rennes in 1491, which ended by the wedding of the Duchess of Brittany with the King of France and signaled the end of the independence of the region. Our study highlights the value of interdisciplinary approaches with a particular emphasis on increasingly accurate isotopic markers. The development of the sulfur isoscape and testing of the triple isotope geographic assignment are detailed in a companion paper [13].https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0248086&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Rozenn Colleter Clément P Bataille Henri Dabernat Daniel Pichot Philippe Hamon Sylvie Duchesne Françoise Labaune-Jean Stéphane Jean Gaétan Le Cloirec Stefania Milano Manuel Trost Sven Steinbrenner Marine Marchal Céline Guilbeau-Frugier Norbert Telmon Éric Crubézy Klervia Jaouen The last battle of Anne of Brittany: Solving mass grave through an interdisciplinary approach (paleopathology, biological anthropology, history, multiple isotopes and radiocarbon dating). PLoS ONE |
| title | The last battle of Anne of Brittany: Solving mass grave through an interdisciplinary approach (paleopathology, biological anthropology, history, multiple isotopes and radiocarbon dating). |
| title_full | The last battle of Anne of Brittany: Solving mass grave through an interdisciplinary approach (paleopathology, biological anthropology, history, multiple isotopes and radiocarbon dating). |
| title_fullStr | The last battle of Anne of Brittany: Solving mass grave through an interdisciplinary approach (paleopathology, biological anthropology, history, multiple isotopes and radiocarbon dating). |
| title_full_unstemmed | The last battle of Anne of Brittany: Solving mass grave through an interdisciplinary approach (paleopathology, biological anthropology, history, multiple isotopes and radiocarbon dating). |
| title_short | The last battle of Anne of Brittany: Solving mass grave through an interdisciplinary approach (paleopathology, biological anthropology, history, multiple isotopes and radiocarbon dating). |
| title_sort | last battle of anne of brittany solving mass grave through an interdisciplinary approach paleopathology biological anthropology history multiple isotopes and radiocarbon dating |
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