Palaeopathological Study of Maxillary Sinus of the Medieval Japanese

Abstract

High frequency of the bony deposition and the bony absorption observed inside of maxillary sinus indicated the prevalence of the maxillary sinusitis. It is pointed out that the inflammation frequency of maxillary sinusitis has the close relationship with a living environment. However, there were few studies on the epidemic study of maxillary sinusitis for a historical Japanese group. Skulls excavated from the medieval group cemetery in Kamakura Yuigahama, Japan were used. It was suitable for observation of the wall of the maxillary sinus that most of their facial bones were partly damaged. The number of skull were 592, and totally 809 maxillae were macroscopically observed under the electric light. Inner surfaces examined were superior, buccal, basal, anterior and posterior walls. The lesions were classified into seven categories such as pits, opening, spicule, bridge,

Reliability of metric determination of sex based on long-bone circumferences: perspectives from Yuigahama-minami, Japan

“…Recent advances in medieval studies of thousands of human skeletal remains from Japan have encompassed bioarchaeology (Fukumine et al 2006;Hirata et al 2004;Irei et al 2008;Moromizato et al 2007;Nagaoka and Abe 2007;Shizushima 2007), paleodemography (Nagaoka et al 2006a;, and craniofacial and dental morphology Komesu et al 2008;Nagaoka et al 2006b;Nagaoka and Hirata 2006;Toma et al 2007). Since medieval studies of skeletal remains have flourished in the last ten years, new standards for sexing medieval skeletons are required.…”