After three years of excavations within the Sevillian cemetery of San Fernando, this previous January the exhumation of what’s generally known as the Pico Reja grave, one of many largest in Europe with greater than 1,700 victims of Francoism, was accomplished. This Tuesday, the Seville metropolis council celebrates an institutional act to shut these restoration works that began in January 2020, by Aranzadi Sociedad de Ciencias.
The newest report on February 2 from the anthropologist, Juan Manuel Guijo, and the archaeologist, Jesús Román, on behalf of the technical crew, particulars that the month of January was “accomplished with the exhumation of all of the stays linked to the funeral exercise and with virtually all of the proof of victims”.
The excavations have led to the detection of skeletal stays of 10,076 “topics”, the exhumation of 10,051 of them and the invention of “proof of reprisals” within the stays of 1,786 folks, which correspond to the variety of the “murdered inhabitants”, in keeping with Aranzadi’s month-to-month report.
The stays of Blas Infante might be right here
Among the victims buried within the Pico Reja grave, there could be members of the Seville municipal company of the time, some mayors of the world and even deputies. It might, in truth, be the grave the place the stays of Blas Infante would relaxation, executed exactly in August 1936 and declared the Father of the Andalusian Nation.
The newest advances in scientific analysis promoted round this grave recommend that it will home the stays of at the very least 30 members of the Rio Tinto mining column, despatched from Huelva to Seville on July 18, 1936 to cease the navy rebellion and whose troops have been victims of an ambush on the Cuesta del Caracol de Camas by the hands of the commander of the Civil Guard Gregorio Haro Lumbreras and the boys beneath his command, even though he had declared his loyalty to the reliable republican authorities.
Identification of corpses by way of DNA crossing
Parallel to the rescue of those skeletal stays, the crew in command of the exhumation is sending batches of samples thereof to the Department of Legal Medicine, Toxicology and Physical Anthropology of the University of Granada for the identification of the corpses by way of the DNA crossing. extracted from the bone with the organic samples taken in its day from the kin of the victims of reprisals.
For this comparability, Aranzadi’s technicians choose samples of about ten centimeters from the biggest bones of the appendicular skeleton in one of the best situation and place them in sealed, sealed paper envelopes recognized with a sequence of numbers and letters that correspond to the info from the exhumation of the physique.