Entre Rhône et Rhin au Néolithique ancien

Nicod, Pierre-Yves; Voruz, Jean-Louis; Jeunesse, Christian; Berg, Paul-Louis van

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“…The rock shelters of Abri de la Cure and Abri Freymond have yielded a few ceramic fragments as well as flints. These bear resemblance to the French and German cultural groups of "La Hoguette" and Western Hinkelstein (Leroi-Gourhan and Girard 1971;Crotti and Pignat 1986;Nicod et al 1996;Manen and Mazurie de Keroualin 2003;Pousaz et al 2009). The Valais region, meanwhile, appears as a "settlement hub" of Neolithic Switzerland.…”

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More than the sum of their parts: reconstituting the paleopathological profile of the individual and commingled Neolithic populations of Western Switzerland

Abegg¹,

Desideri²,

Dutour

et al. 2021

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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This research focuses on the Neolithic populations of Western Switzerland (5500–2200 BCE) and on establishing their paleopathological profile. This chronological period presents varying burial practices, and the aim was to be able to synthesise all information regarding the pathologies these populations exhibited, in such a way that statistical tests could be performed to determine whether geographical (site location), biological (age, sex, stature) and chronological factors played a role in lesion distribution. As a result, a methodology was devised to consider bone lesions in both a quantified and qualified manner, and able to handle individualised, multiple and commingled remains. The statistical analysis showed that pathological profiles differed depending on site location, with some exhibiting patterns that raise further questions as to the socio-economical functioning of these prehistoric societies. Biological factors also appear to play a role in lesion distribution, with immature individuals exhibiting more metabolic deregulations, whilst the adults—as expected—showed more signs of degenerative pathologies. Some chronological evolution of health is also perceivable; however, the small sample size available for some periods means these results are tentative at best. These remains, however, proved more than an accumulation of bone lesions, and the qualified data collected from them also yielded individual and collective narratives of health. Instances of infectious diseases were discovered, indicating that pathologies such as tuberculosis were a persistent presence at the time, with all the consequences this entails.

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confidence: 86%