Exploring the social construction of disability: An application of the bioarchaeology of personhood model to a pathological skeleton from ancient Bahrain

Boutin, Alexis T.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.10.005

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“…Recent publications have discussed the social implications for individuals and their communities of observed disabilities or impairment (Boutin, 2016;Cormier & Buikstra, 2017;Roberts, 1999Roberts, , 2000Tilley, 2015). Because HCH has mild manifestations, it is not usually assessed until mid-to late childhood.…”

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Osteological evidence of short stature and parieto‐squamosal arch craniosynostosis in a non‐adult male from the 13th century Leiria, Portugal

Garcia

Santos

2019

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Conditions that cause bone dysplasias and premature closure of sutures are rare. This study aims to discuss the underlying condition of a juvenile exhumed from the São Martinho church graveyard, Leiria, Portugal. The necropolis's stratigraphy dates this individual ca. 1211 AD, the date the church was founded. The skeleton is 84% complete, and the bones are well preserved. Pelvic morphology indicates a male individual. Age at death estimated from the length of the third molar was 17.8 years, whereas skeletal maturation indicated an age ranging between 14 and 16 years. The unusual features of this individual include (a) a stocky body with rugose muscle attachment sites, particularly on the clavicle and upper limb bones, and short long bones; (b) squamous and parieto‐mastoid sutures synostosis that resulted in an asymmetrical vault and mandible. Femur length is consistent with 9.5–12.0 years old. Hundreds of conditions can cause short stature. In this individual, the skeletal characteristics point to a mild form of skeletal dysplasia consistent with hypochondroplasia. However, only genetic tests could confirm this hypothesis. Despite his appearance, this individual survived to late adolescence and was buried in the same way as the other individuals of this medieval community. This study reports the first case of skeletal dysplasia in the Portuguese palaeopathological record.

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Osteological evidence of short stature and parieto‐squamosal arch craniosynostosis in a non‐adult male from the 13th century Leiria, Portugal

Garcia

Santos

2019

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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“…This includes individual lived experiences, such as the social construction of disability (Boutin 2016), health (Marsteller et al 2011), and gender (Geller 2008). Furthermore, bioarchaeologists are considering death experiences and how social identity may transcend death (Crandall and Martin 2014;Duncan and Schwartz 2014;Nystrom 2011;Tung 2014).…”

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Integrating Identities: An Innovative Bioarchaeological and Biogeochemical Approach to Analyzing the Multiplicity of Identities in the Mortuary Record

Torres‐Rouff¹,

Knudson²

2017

Current Anthropology

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“…A colloquial approach for describing the life-course of an archaeological individual has been advocated as a way of making bioarchaeological enquiry more accessible to the general audience (Boutin, 2016). This is attempted here by way of conclusion:…”

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“Captain of All These Men of Death”: An Integrated Case Study of Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century Otago, New Zealand

Snoddy¹,

Buckley²,

King³

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The South Island of New Zealand saw several major waves of migration in the mid-nineteenth century, predominantly from Europe but also with an ethnically distinct Chinese presence. The rural community of Milton, Otago, was a settler community established primarily by immigrants from the United Kingdom in search of a better quality of life. However, these settlers faced unique challenges related to surviving in an isolated location with very little infrastructure compared to their origin populations. In 2016 excavation was undertaken at St. John's Burial Ground, Milton, with the object of using bioarchaeological methods to elucidate the lived experience of the first organized European settlement of this region, particularly in terms of health and disease. Here we present a case study of Burial 21 (B21), a male individual of known identity and a documented cause of death. We use biochemical and paleopathological methods to ground-truth his written history, which includes a period of invalidism due to tuberculosis, and discuss the implications of our findings for the community, provision of care, and quality of life in rural colonial New Zealand.

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Exploring the social construction of disability: An application of the bioarchaeology of personhood model to a pathological skeleton from ancient Bahrain

Cited by 46 publications

References 38 publications

Osteological evidence of short stature and parieto‐squamosal arch craniosynostosis in a non‐adult male from the 13th century Leiria, Portugal

Osteological evidence of short stature and parieto‐squamosal arch craniosynostosis in a non‐adult male from the 13th century Leiria, Portugal

Integrating Identities: An Innovative Bioarchaeological and Biogeochemical Approach to Analyzing the Multiplicity of Identities in the Mortuary Record

“Captain of All These Men of Death”: An Integrated Case Study of Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century Otago, New Zealand

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