Una fosa común en el interior de Argentina: el Cementerio de San Vicente

Abstract

Forensic anthropology had a fundamental role to play in the process of investigations about StateTerrorism in Argentina during the last century, and still does: that of exhuming the unidentified bodiesstill buried in common and individual graves and of analyzing the recovered remains towards theiridentification and determination of the cause of death. In the case described here, forensicanthropological and archaeological skills were essential in locating the mass graves at San Vicente,Córdoba, distinguishing among disappeared and non-disappeared dead, determining identity, andreconstructing the manner in which the disappeared were killed

Keywords

• Forensic Anthropology
• State terrorism
• Cordoba San Vicente’s Cemetery
• disappeared people identification