Natalya G. Bryukhova^1,*, Dmitry V. Shmuratko^2,**

¹ Perm Federal Research Centre, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
² Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Russia

*E-mail: nat-bryukhova@yandex.ru
**E-mail: dshmuratko@mail.ru

Keywords: the Migration, mound burial grounds, anatomy, bow and arrows, bone arrowhead, wound, Perm Cis-Urals.

The article presents the results of the study, in the course of which it was possible to establish an indirect cause of a young man’s death at the age of 18–22 years, whose bone remains were found in burial 57 of the Mitino Mound Group near the village of Mitino, Kochevsky District of Perm Territory. The paper outlines the deposition of the remains in the burial, describes the wound channel and the results of a microscopic analysis of a bone arrowhead fragment found outside the skeleton and an arrowhead fragment stuck in the body of the seventh thoracic vertebra of the deceased. As a result, it was concluded that the discussed case was an isolated, non-penetrating, blind wound received as a result of an aimed shot.

DOI: 10.31857/S086956870004826-9