Archaeoparasitological data and pathoecology of the town of Mangazeya in Western Siberia in the 17th century

Slepchenko, Sergey Mikhailovich; Lobanova, T.V.; Vizgalov, G.P.; Ivanov, Sergey Nikolaevich; Rakultseva, Daria Sergeyevna

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102770

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“…It is well known that consumption of infested beef and pork is the main cause of infection by this helminth. The inhabitants of these settlements ate these meats, and accordingly, this habit is reflected in their archaeoparasitological spectrum (Slepchenko et al, 2020(Slepchenko et al, , 2021(Slepchenko et al, , 2022. The fact that no eggs of Taenia cestodes were found at the Gornopravdinskiy burial ground may indicate that pork and beef played a secondary role in the diet of this population.…”

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“…What came to our attention was the fact that the parasitological spectrum of the population responsible for establishing the Gornopravdinskiy burial ground turned out to be different from those of other Russian settlements in Western and Eastern Siberia. Eggs of such geohelminths as Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura have been found in large numbers in samples taken from the occupation layer of the town of Mangazeya, dating to the 17th century and located in an area where eggs cannot reach the invasive stage (Slepchenko et al, 2021). Eggs of human roundworms were found in samples taken from an 18th-century toilet discovered during excavations in the Russian town of Yeniseisk (Slepchenko et al, 2020).…”

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“…Furthermore, the samples from the Gornopravdinskiy burial ground did not contain any eggs of Taenia tapeworms, which have been found at many archaeological sites built by Russian populations of Siberia. For instance, eggs of helminths of this genus were found in large numbers in samples of the occupation layer and in fecal samples from toilets in the Russian towns of Mangazeya, Yeniseisk, and Stadukhinsky fort (Slepchenko et al, 2020(Slepchenko et al, , 2021(Slepchenko et al, , 2022. It is well known that consumption of infested beef and pork is the main cause of infection by this helminth.…”

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“…Some archaeoparasitological works have been done on the large settlements and towns of Western Siberian Russia. Analysis of soil samples taken from the sacral surface, toilet samples, those of occupation layers, and dog coprolites have enabled description of the parasitological spectra of the towns of Mangazeya (17th century) and Yeniseisk (18th century) in Western and Eastern Siberia, respectively (Slepchenko et al, 2020(Slepchenko et al, , 2021. The results of an archaeoparasitological study on Stadukhinsky Fort, located in the subarctic zone of Eastern Siberia and dating to the same general period, also have been published (Slepchenko et al, 2022).…”

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“…All of these investigations have allowed us to supple-ment the available data on, and to a certain extent to reconstruct, the dietary habits, types of economic activity, and migratory flows, as well as the sanitary conditions of settlements and the health of urban populations in the region (Slepchenko et al, 2020(Slepchenko et al, , 2021(Slepchenko et al, , 2022. Nevertheless, the archaeoparasitological approach has not been widely applied to the study of Western Siberian Russians.…”

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The first archaeoparasitological data on the Russian rural population in Western Siberia in the 18th–19th centuries

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The life of the long-established Russian inhabitants of Western Siberia has been well described. In fact, archaeological, ethnographic, and other information on its various aspects is abundant. Archaeoparasitological data, on the other hand, is lacking, particularly with regard to parasitosis incidence. In the present study, eggs of such fish parasites as Opisthorchis felineus and Diphyllobothrium spp. were identified in soil samples taken from the sacral surface of bodies that had been buried in the Gornopravdinskiy burial ground (on the Lower Irtysh River) in the 18th or 19th centuries. The study findings indicate that fish was a key component of the diet of the rural Russian population of that area. No statistically significant sex differences in fish consumption were identified. The parasitological spectrum of the population under consideration was narrow relative to the diversity of parasitoses in urban Russian populations. This fact probably reflects the lower-intensity population flows, their limited radii, and the different economic activities pursued by those people. Based on the archaeoparasitological data, the latter seem to have been closer to the economic activities practiced by the indigenous populations of Western Siberia.

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Find of Eggs of the Nematode Dioctophyme renale (Goeze, 1782) (Nematoda, Dioctophymidae) from the Late Holocene of Northwestern Siberia

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Archaeoparasitology — a new source of reconstruction of migrations of ancient populations: opportunities, results, and prospects

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The resilience of intestinal parasite ova to harsh environmental conditions and possibility of identification of many of them down to genus/species with the aid of conventional visual light microscopy make parasites an im-portant source of information on different aspects of life of ancient populations. Of special interest is the study of the phenomenon of parasitoidism aimed at reconstruction of ancient human migrations. Ectoparasites (the head louse) and a range of intestinal parasites of such groups as the helminths, tapeworms, and trematodes can be used as a marker of contacts and/or migration of people. Finding helminth ova in ancient samples collected in territories outside the endemic pockets can be direct evidence of contacts and/or migrations of the ancient popu-lation. An example of reconstruction of such migrations is given by, for instance, finding ova of the ascarids and whipworm on the territories of the Far North, mountainous Altai, deserts of the Central Asia etc. A remarkable example of migrations, according to the archaeoparasitology data, is the use of the helminths as a marker of an-cient human migrations, with the example of population of the American continent. It is noteworthy that almost a century old archaeoparasitology data find confirmation in the results of modern paleogenetic studies. In the recent decades, there have been review publications concerned with the finds of ova of various parasitic organisms in archaeological sites, many of which consolidated archaeoparasitology materials dealing with specific intestinal parasites, the impact of the parasites on the human evolution and their (viz., parasites and human) coevolution, and spread of the parasitic diseases as a result of climate changes both in ancient and modern times. All the works, without exception, emphasize the importance of archaeoparasitology data for the deeper understanding of these processes. However, although the first works on the reconstruction of migrations from parasitological data were published back in the beginning of the last century, the research works substantiating this approach and demonstrating its viability appeared only early in this century and elucidated biological pre-requisites for the re-construction of migrations. Therefore, new broad consolidation of the materials on the reconstruction of migrations from the data of archaeoparasitology is motivated not only by the need of reconsideration of already existing and new data, but also by the need of examination and verification of the archaeoparasitology facts in the context of the genetic data, archaeology, anthropology etc.

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Archaeoparasitological data and pathoecology of the town of Mangazeya in Western Siberia in the 17th century

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The first archaeoparasitological data on the Russian rural population in Western Siberia in the 18th–19th centuries

The first archaeoparasitological data on the Russian rural population in Western Siberia in the 18th–19th centuries

Find of Eggs of the Nematode Dioctophyme renale (Goeze, 1782) (Nematoda, Dioctophymidae) from the Late Holocene of Northwestern Siberia

Archaeoparasitology — a new source of reconstruction of migrations of ancient populations: opportunities, results, and prospects

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