Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in Late Jomon Hokkaido, Japan

Oxenham, Marc; Matsumura, Hirofumi; Nishimoto, Toyohiro

doi:10.1002/oa.803

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“…This, combined with little exercise, represents a lifestyle that can lead to obesity, diabetes and, as the theory goes, DISH. However, there are also reports from non-medieval, nonmonastic populations, suggesting that the prevalence of DISH is not restricted to a particular time period or social context (Crub ezy and Trinkaus, 1992;Jankauskas, 2003;Oxenham et al, 2006;Verlaan et al, 2007).…”

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Isotopic examination of links between diet, social differentiation, and DISH at the post‐medieval Carmelite Friary of Aalst, Belgium

Quintelier

Ervynck

Müldner

et al. 2013

American J Phys Anthropol

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Stable isotope ratios (δ(13) C and δ(15) N) were measured in human burials from the post-medieval (16th-18th c. AD) Carmelite friary burial grounds at Aalst, a town in Flanders, Belgium. Dietary patterns of 39 adult individuals were analyzed, from a mixed monastic and lay population buried in three different locations, reflecting groups with differing social status. The data show significant variation in the consumption of perhaps meat, but certainly also marine protein between females and males. This result represents a remarkable continuity with medieval dietary patterns, suggesting that the social and economic changes of the early modern period had a limited effect on everyday life. When both sexes were examined together, individuals buried in the cloister garth consumed significantly less marine protein compared to people buried in the church, likely reflecting social stratification. No statistical differences were observed between isotopic values from the church and the cloister alley, suggesting a similarly diverse diet of the monastic part of the buried population and that of the richer lay population. Finally, the hypothesis that diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is linked to a diet rich in animal protein was tested. No systematic or statistically significant differences between pathological and non-pathological bones from the same individuals affected with DISH were observed, and no statistical differences were found between individuals with DISH and individuals without DISH.

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Isotopic examination of links between diet, social differentiation, and DISH at the post‐medieval Carmelite Friary of Aalst, Belgium

Quintelier

Ervynck

Müldner

et al. 2013

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…The overall nature and patterns of human health in the prehistoric and protohistoric periods of Hokkaido is still incompletely understood despite a number of bioarchaeological (e.g., Chisholm et al, 1992;Hanihara et al, 1994, Minagawa, 2001Oxenham et al, 2006a) and biodistance (e.g., Yamaguchi, 1974Yamaguchi, , 1981Ishida, 1988Ishida, , 1996Dodo and Kawakubo, 2002;Matsumura et al, 2006) studies. Further, the biological costs associated with living in sub-Arctic conditions in the past, whether in Northeast Asia, northern America or Europe, require additional work.…”

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Oral and physiological paleohealth in cold adapted peoples: Northeast Asia, Hokkaido

Oxenham

Matsumura

2007

American J Phys Anthropol

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This paper examines variables useful in reconstructing oral (caries, antemortem tooth loss, alveolar defects) and physiological (cribra orbitalia, linear enamel hypoplasia) well-being in two bioarchaeological assemblages from Hokkaido, Japan: Okhotsk (n = 37 individuals) and Jomon (n = 60). Findings are compared and contrasted with each other, with published series from Honshu Japan, and samples from climatically near-equivalent Alaska. It was found that more meaningful comparisons of Hokkaido paleohealth could be made with Alaskan material, rather than the more southerly Jomon. Results were ambiguous with respect to physiological well-being. Low levels of LEH in the cold-adapted samples suggest operating in arctic and subarctic environments with marine-based subsistence regimes is not physiologically expensive. However, the relatively high levels of cribra orbitalia in Hokkaido, relative to Alaska, suggest the picture is not straightforward: the reasons for elevated cribra orbitalia in Hokkaido are unclear. The subarctic and arctic samples formed three broadly similar groupings in terms of oral health profiles: (1) Aleuts and Eskimo; (2) Ipiutak and Tigara; (3) Hokkaido Jomon, Okhotsk, and Kodiak Island. Differences between these groupings could be explained with a combination of sample demographics and subsistence orientations. The extremely high frequency of caries in one sample, caribou hunting Ipiutak, may have been influenced by factors such as low levels of dietary magnesium and potentially cariogenic foodstuffs, such as preparations of caribou stomach contents. It was concluded that oral health profiles are potentially sensitive to differences in subsistence strategies among cold-adapted hunter-gatherers, although they lack predictive value.

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“…In general, reports of DISH are very rare among historic East Asian peoples (Table 3), even though increasing numbers of bio‐archaeological studies are undertaken in the region nowadays (Tayles, 1999; Domett, 2001; Pietrusewsky & Douglas, 2002; Oxenham et al ., 2004). To the present time, only two cases from the pre‐modern Japanese Edo (Suzuki et al ., 1993) and additional instances from among the Jomon Japanese in Hokkaido have been reported for the East Asian region (Oxenham et al ., 2006). In a striking contrast, in our collection, four cases of DISH were found among the 96 samples examined.…”

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“…Anyway, there were very few confirmed cases of DISH in ancient or medieval East Asian skeleton cases. DISH cases reported from historic Asian samples, indeed, include only those Japanese instances from the Edo (Suzuki et al ., 1993) and late Jomon (Oxenham et al ., 2006) periods.…”

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Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis cases found in Joseon Dynasty Human Sample Collection of Korea

Kim

Lee

Kim

et al. 2010

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is a disorder showing hyperostosis of the spinal column and ossification of extraspinal ligaments or tendons. The prevalence of DISH has been found to be higher in historic peoples of the upper-and ruling classes, and in fact was closely correlative with nutritional and high-caloric diets. DISH is also known to be a function of genetic factors; as such, there have been very few cases of DISH found among the specimens of Asian skeletal collections. In our osteoarchaeological study on the Joseon Dynasty Human Sample Collection (JDHSC), we found four DISH instances among the 96 cases (4.17%) we examined. This prevalence is not so different from those discovered in already-published studies on collections in Europe and other regions. However, as already stated, it must be considered that most of the JDHSC individuals we examined were remains of people from the highest social classes of 16th-18th century Joseon society. Therefore, when collections from medieval European monastic sites, the appropriate control from well-fed populations, were used for comparison, the prevalence of DISH was found to be far lower among the JDHSC. Reports on DISH from examinations of collections in Asian countries have been spotty, leaving gaps in the social-strata spectrum. Further researches into the prevalence of DISH among the different social strata of ancient or medieval Asian peoples are still required.

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Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in Late Jomon Hokkaido, Japan

Cited by 18 publications

References 44 publications

Isotopic examination of links between diet, social differentiation, and DISH at the post‐medieval Carmelite Friary of Aalst, Belgium

Isotopic examination of links between diet, social differentiation, and DISH at the post‐medieval Carmelite Friary of Aalst, Belgium

Oral and physiological paleohealth in cold adapted peoples: Northeast Asia, Hokkaido

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis cases found in Joseon Dynasty Human Sample Collection of Korea

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