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Not sure if you are asking in earnest, but bone damage from a knife would suggest the skeleton was from a murder victim.

They can tell skeletons significantly older than 1000 years were from someone, for example, killed by a tiger, due to teeth marks on bones.

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Saw an interesting viking museum in Norway that had a skeleton of a man who had his leg shorn off by an axe in battle. That one may be a bit more obvious I suppose, but I suspect there's a ton you can learn from just a set of bones.

You could probably make a tv show about that, maybe call it bones :-)

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