This research will discuss the different types of fractures that occur in a sample of the Dutch Middenbeemster collection from the Post-medieval graveyard and determine their prevalence rate. The...Show moreThis research will discuss the different types of fractures that occur in a sample of the Dutch Middenbeemster collection from the Post-medieval graveyard and determine their prevalence rate. The fracture types may possibly provide information regarding the lifestyle of the individuals. The characteristics of antemortem skeletal trauma will also be reviewed. Signs of healing indicate the trauma occurred at least a week before death and is called antemortem trauma. The various types of fractures and their cause(s), whether direct or indirect trauma injury, will be explained further. What the prevalence rate and the fracture patterns can say about the lifestyle of the Middenbeemster population will be addressed as well in order to provide some more insight into the lives and activities of the inhabitants of Middenbeemster that were interred in the cemetery of the ‘Keyserkerk’ in primarily the mid-nineteenth century.Show less