38 196. At Los Toriles, four graves were excavated. According to the EAAF report, as the dwellings in this place were further apart the soldiers concentrated on specific families. In the words of the EAAF, “the sad privilege of not having been piled and burned meant, in the case of Los Toriles, that all the skeletons exhumed were in a good state of conservation, allowing them to be identified and returned 227 to their families . At site 1, three anatomically articulated human skeletons were found, along with 228 ballistic evidence . At site 2 at least seven anatomically articulated human skeletons were found, along 229 with 18 bullet fragments . At site 3, four anatomically articulated human skeletons were found, and 33 230 pieces of ballistic evidence . At site 4, a small number of fragments compatible with eight individuals were found, along with a considerable number of large, spongy bones completely disarticulated 231 232 anatomically . In total, 25 skeletons were exhumed, 17 of which were complete . 197. In the canton of La Joya, at site 1A, three anatomically articulated human skeletons were 233 found along with ballistic evidence . 198. In the exhumations of 2001, 25 persons were identified through laboratory examinations 234 and comparison of physical data on the victims supplied by their relatives . 3. Exhumations conducted in 2003 199. Under the judicial authority of the Second Court of First Instance of San Francisco Gotera, forensic work was conducted between October 23 and December 10, 2003, to recover and analyze the remains of at least 81 persons who died between December 11 and 13 of 1981. The work 235 involved the EAAF, other international experts, and members of the Legal Medicine Institutes . 200. In the villages of El Mozote, Ranchería, Los Toriles and Poza Honda (this last village located in the canton of Cerro Pando) “skeletal remains of at least 57 individuals” were recovered, “corresponding to the incidents that occurred between December 11 and 13, 1981 in those villages.” With respect to their ages, 26 were adults, nine were adolescents, nine were children or adolescents, 10 were children, two were infants, and nine were of indeterminate age. These remains were subjected to laboratory analysis, which allowed some of them to be identified while others had to be classed as 236 “possibly identifiable”. 201. The remains were retrieved without their soft tissue, so that wounds received at the time of death could be observed only from the bones or hard tissue. Except for the findings in Cerro Pando, the characteristics of remains found in the other graves – concentrations of incomplete and disarticulated skeletons – and the fact that there were few mandibles or maxillas with significant dental features, meant 237 that they could not be identified. 226 Ibid. 227 Ibid. 228 Ibid. 229 Ibid. 230 Ibid. 231 Ibid. 232 Ibid. 233 Ibid. 234 Ibid. 235 Report of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team on exhumations conducted in 2003. 236 Ibid. 237 Ibid.