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Article History

Received: 18 September 2024

Accepted: 8 January 2025

First Online: 19 January 2025

Declarations

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: The authors declare no competing interests.

: The DHOCs are part of the Anthropological Collections, centrally and financially managed by the Museum System of the University of Bologna, along with all the other scientific collections present in the different departments. One of the authors, M.G.B., is scientific referent of the Anthropological Collections, which are hosted at the Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences. As such, authors guarantee that the study has been conducted according to the most advanced ethical and scientific principles for the study of human remains. In particular, examination of the anonymized contemporary remains is consented and regulated by article 43 of the Presidential Decree of the Italian Republic (DPR) n. 285 of September 10th, 1990, of the National Police Mortuary regulation. Informed consent was not required and impossible to obtain, due to the date of acquisition of the collections. All analyses were performed in accordance with the Italian law, following national and international institutional guidelines and regulations.