Medieval skeleton puts a face on accounts of torture and violence (2019)

> But they suggest that he “could have been considered as ‘different’ by his contemporaries, and possibly this discrimination may have been the cause of his final conviction, as he could have been sacrificed, for being a ‘freak,’ by an angry crowd, as a plague spreader.

And that is why I got out of archaeology. No evidence at all, just protection of current political / societal norms and cultural flashpoints on to past peoples. Archaeology really needs to get better at reporting the facts and much more skeptical of their interpretations.