How visste någon att den huvudlösa kroppen som finns i öknen var Fremen?

Genom avancerad Bene Gesserit uppfattning.

I den nya Dune Messiah undersöker Alia kroppen och ser saker på ett sätt som bara en utbildad Bene Gesserit skulle se dem, en uppfattningsnivå att vi bara dödliga knappt kan fira. Med tanke på kroppens tillstånd innehåller detta förmodligen märken och calluses på kroppen, hudens pliability och färgning, benens muskulatur och tusen andra mindre utdrag av information som även en skicklig Suk-doktor eller kulturantropolog skulle sakna men som en Bene Gesserit anser att det är avgörande.

Alia crouched, resting elbows on knees, chin on fists, stared at the body on the dune—a few bones and some tattered flesh that once had been a young woman. The hands, the head, most of the upper torso were gone—eaten by the coriolis wind. The sand all around bore the tracks of her brother’s medics and questors. They were gone now, all excepting the mortuary attendants who stood to one side with Hayt, the ghola, waiting for her to finish her mysterious perusal of what had been written here.

Dessutom lär vi oss att någon form av kemisk analys har gjorts på kroppen. Resultaten indikerar antagligen en nivå av krydda som sufficerar likets celler som inte skulle ses utanför någon som bor på Dune.

The body had been discovered several hours earlier by a low-flying courier whose instruments had detected a faint water trace where none should be. His call had brought the experts. And they had learned—what? That this had been a woman of about twenty years, Fremen, addicted to semuta … and she had died here in the crucible of the desert from the effects of a subtle poison of Tleilaxu origin.

Vad vi vet från Dune Messiah:

The woman killed was Lichna, the daughter of Otheym. Scytale murders her to assume her identity to get close to Paul. The reader knows this, but the characters in the story do not.

Så först vet vi att genetisk identifiering är omöjlig.

"We may never learn who it was died here," he said. "The head, the teeth are gone. The hands... Unlikely such a one had a genetic record somewhere to which her cells could be matched."

Också vad hon hade på sig vid tiden för sitt mord var inte särskilt Fremen. Hon hade inte en stillbild, men en blå klänning:

"We have the woman here," Farok said. "Do you wish to see her now?"

"I've seen her," Scytale said. "I've studied her with care. Where is she?"

Farok snapped his fingers.

The youth took up his rebec, drew the bow across it. Semuta music wailed from the strings. As though drawn by the sound, a young woman in a blue robe emerged from a doorway behind the musician. Narcotic dullness filled her eyes which were the total blue of the Ibad. She was a Fremen, addicted to the spice, and now caught by an offworld vice.

Så med de flesta av de stora funktionerna som saknas (dental / kranial), och ingen genetisk rekord, och inget särskilt Fremen om några kläder eller prydnadar som kunde ha lämnats där kroppen dumpades - hur kan någon veta om kroppen var Fremen?

Mest troligt genom Rättsmedicinsk antropologi .

Från den länken:

Determination of Race from the Skeleton through Forensic Anthropological Methods.

FORDISC, a computer program developed at the University of Tennessee, is another metric technique reviewed that not only distinguishes Whites, Blacks, and Native Americans but also male Hispanics, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Platycnemia, femoral curvature and other morphological attributes of the post-cranial skeleton may be used in support of a racial determination; however, several investigators have turned to post-cranial elements not only to use in support of cranial findings but for use when cranial information is not available. As a result, several discriminant functions from measurements of the pelvis, femur, tibia or combinations of these elements have been developed. Accuracy for these techniques varies from 57% to 95%, depending on the sample and technique used. Other aspects of the femur, such as the diameter of the neck, height of the intercondylar notch and femoral curvature, have been measured for assessment of race.

Således är det möjligt att läsa ett partiellt skelett för ett ras- "fingeravtryck", även med vår teknik idag. Jag skulle föreställa mig att det skulle vara en enkel sak för en Suk-läkare att studera skelettresterna och notera några unika Fremen-funktioner.

Så det skulle behöva vara svaret, eftersom ben var verkligen allt som var kvar på den tiden.