2017
DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.13426
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A Comparative Taphonomic Analysis of 24 Trophy Skulls from Modern Forensic Cases,

Abstract: Cranial remains retained from fallen enemies are commonly referred to as "trophy skulls," and many such crania were acquired as souvenirs by U.S. servicemembers during WWII and the Vietnam conflict. These remains increasingly have become the subject of forensic anthropological analysis as their possessors, typically veterans or their relatives, try to discard or repatriate them. The present research uses a qualitative analytical approach to review 24 cases of reported trophy skulls (14 previously unpublished c… Show more

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“…The acquisition of human remains from enemy dead as trophies and souvenirs has been documented throughout human history and continued to modern times. (2)(3)(4) During WWII, the practice of taking enemy body parts was especially common in the Pacific theater, the grim culmination of pervasive anti-Asian racism in the United States that allowed for the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans, dehumanizing wartime propaganda that included disturbing hunting metaphors of Japanese soldiers, and hatred stirred by events at Pearl Harbor. (2,(4)(5)(6)(7) No comparable evidence of this practice has been documented in the European theater.…”
Section: Results and Discussion War Trophies In Wwiimentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The acquisition of human remains from enemy dead as trophies and souvenirs has been documented throughout human history and continued to modern times. (2)(3)(4) During WWII, the practice of taking enemy body parts was especially common in the Pacific theater, the grim culmination of pervasive anti-Asian racism in the United States that allowed for the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans, dehumanizing wartime propaganda that included disturbing hunting metaphors of Japanese soldiers, and hatred stirred by events at Pearl Harbor. (2,(4)(5)(6)(7) No comparable evidence of this practice has been documented in the European theater.…”
Section: Results and Discussion War Trophies In Wwiimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(2)(3)(4) During WWII, the practice of taking enemy body parts was especially common in the Pacific theater, the grim culmination of pervasive anti-Asian racism in the United States that allowed for the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans, dehumanizing wartime propaganda that included disturbing hunting metaphors of Japanese soldiers, and hatred stirred by events at Pearl Harbor. (2,(4)(5)(6)(7) No comparable evidence of this practice has been documented in the European theater. (4,5,7) In fact, all known WWII trophy skulls in the forensic record have been identified as Japanese, illustrating an apparent ideologic difference between the two theaters.…”
Section: Results and Discussion War Trophies In Wwiimentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…that themselves are indicative of primary burial/deposition and/or secondary storage conditions or use (e.g. Pokines 2015a,b;Yucha et al 2017). We end up with 33 different views for each of the neural network training images, thus 363 images generated using standard data augmentation techniques (Tanner & Wong 1987;Van Dyke & Meng 2012).…”
Section: Data Preparation For Training the Neural Network Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A separate area of research concerns the analysis and repatriation of the skulls of fallen 'enemy' soldiers taken primarily during past American conflicts, especially WWII and the Vietnam War (e.g. Harrison 2006Harrison , 2012Bass 1983;Sledzik and Ousley 1991;Weingartner 1992;Seidemann et al 2009;Yucha et al 2017).…”
Section: The "Exotic" Dead As Curio Commodity and Cultural Propertymentioning
confidence: 99%