Alice Lusiardothe anthropologist in charge of the team that found skeletal remains of a woman in the 14th Infantry Battalion on June 6, assured that the body He was found with “widespread deterioration” in his long bonesand without any “clothing” or “personal effects”.
The work of the Forensic Technical Institute (ITF) made it possible to decipher that the body is femaleas reported by MVD Noticias (TV Ciudad) and confirmed The Observer. In a press conference held this Thursday, Lusiardo said that this information was reached through “features in the skeleton” and by the “size” of “the most important bones”.
However, so far could not establish age and height of the victim. “We are not in a position to make any determination, for the damage suffered by some key bones. We do not have the certainty or a degree of precision to offer according to an investigation of this type,” said the anthropologist.
According to Luisardo, the body is “essentially complete”. Until a few days ago anthropologists they have “sieved” the sediment near the meeting place and they found new “small bones and fragments”.
However, the long bones suffered a “general deterioration” at their extremessince some plants they “invaded” part of the tissue of those parts.
DNA sample of the remains of the disappeared detainee
In any case, he appreciated that “lime preserves genetic material very well”, so the researcher expects that there are “good chances” of obtaining a DNA sample that allows the forensic genetics lab of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) to arrive at the identity of the victim.
The team of anthropologists also noted that the woman she was buried “with her feet facing south” in a grave “cut into the rock” and “shallow”.
“What we observe it was this need to dig the rockhaving other places in the battalion where there is more depth of the sediment. Obviously the place that had to have the burial was thatand they had to use the tools they had at hand,” said the official, who believes the body “it was buried shallower” because “it could not be buried deeper”.
“Once the rock was dug, lime was placed, the body was placed, lime was placed again, and it was buried under a tile”added the person in charge of the team of anthropologists.
