More recently, a group of scientists decided to apply modern forensic techniques to the skull.
As mentioned in the introduction, phosphate miners in Romania unearthed a fractured skull. No more context than this was provided. More recently, a group of scientists decided to apply modern forensic techniques to the skull. First of all the scientists had to decide if the injury was pre-, peri-, or post-mortem—that is, did the injury happen before death, was it the cause of death, or did the breakage happen after the person was dead?