The aim of this study was to document the traumatic injuries in the late medieval and early modern population from Łekno, Poland (13 th –16 th centuries AD). The authors studied 247 skeletons (147 males; 81 females; 19 unsexed individuals).

In a first step, tauma prevalence rate was calculated with reference to the number of individual skeletons affected. These data were compared with the data from other Polish skeletal series (Cedynia, Czersk, Złota Pińczowska, Toruń, Słaboszewo, Doktorce).

Traumatic injury frequencies in Łekno poulation were also calculated with reference to the long bones (clavicula, humerus, radius, femur, tibia, fibula). The obtained results were compared with the simillar data from the selected populations from Central Europe – Slavonic population from the Czech Republic (Pohansko u Břeclavi; 8 th –10 th centuries AD) (Kanášová et al. 2009), late medieval – early modern (11 th –19 th centuries AD) populations from Serbia (Velemirovi Drovi, Stara Torina, Dići, Čačak, Valjevska Gračanica, Žiča) (Djurić et al. 2006) and a medieval (13 th –14 th centuries AD) population from Croatia (Kaprivno) (Novak 2011).

The frequency of injuries in the Łekno population was 12.1%. The bones with most frequent evidence of trauma were clavicula and ulna. According to injuries the Łekno population does not differ from the population from Doktorce, Słaboszewo, Toruń, but it does differ from populations from Czersk, Cedynia, Złota Pińczowska. The Łekno population does not differ from the populations from the Czech Republic and Croatia.