Paleopathology

Smith, Maria Ostendorf

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“…An implicit goal of bioarchaeological inquiry is archaeological problem solving using patterns of morbidity, mortality, and disease prevalence (Larsen, ; Smith, ). When judiciously applied, this inquiry can result in new insights about societal, subsistence or settlement patterning that is otherwise unobtainable or ambiguously reflected in the material culture.…”

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Treponemal Disease, Tuberculosis and Subsistence‐settlement Pattern in the Late Woodland Period West‐central Illinois

Mosher

Smith

Albrecht

et al. 2013

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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In later pre‐Columbian prehistory (post AD 1000), the adaptation and intensification of maize agriculture and its correlate of aggregate village settlement (i.e. Mississippianization) is temporally and geographically variable. In the Midwest, consequential to the florescence of the major ceremonial centre of Cahokia (AD 1050–1300), the Mississippi River Valley alluvial plain in Illinois, known as the American Bottom, became a core area of this subsistence‐settlement change. Much archaeological research has traced aspects of this transition in the Lower and Middle Illinois River Valley, but little is known outside of these areas. A skeletal sample from the remote hinterland area of the Upper Mississippi River in west‐central Illinois was examined for arguable paleopathological correlates of sedentism (treponemal disease) and Mississippianization (tuberculosis). The Schroeder Mounds (AD 900–1100) adult skeletal sample (N = 53) exhibited a high frequency of treponemal disease (13.2–15.1%). This result is consistent with paleopathological literature linking a 9+ % pre‐Columbian North American prevalence with sedentism, challenging archaeologically based inferences that the hinterland was occupied by mobile forager‐horticulturalists. A hallmark of Mississippianization is the presence of diagnostic cases of tuberculosis. No cases were observed in the Schroeder sample, suggesting a pre‐Mississippian subsistence‐settlement pattern. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Treponemal Disease, Tuberculosis and Subsistence‐settlement Pattern in the Late Woodland Period West‐central Illinois

Mosher

Smith

Albrecht

et al. 2013

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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“…Degenerative changes are associated with chronological age and tend to be progressive . The joint disease osteoarthritis (OA) is one such progressive, degenerative change characterized by the degradation of joint cartilage, which in its most severe form causes direct bone‐on‐bone contact . Osteoarthritis can be found within the jaw, hip, shoulder, knee, elbow, wrist, hand, ankle, foot, and vertebral column .…”

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A Bayesian Approach to Age‐at‐Death Estimation from Osteoarthritis of the Shoulder in Modern North Americans

Brennaman

Love²,

Bethard

et al. 2016

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Osteoarthritis (OA) is a marker of degeneration within the skeleton, frequently associated with age. This study quantifies the correlation between OA and age-at-death and investigates the utility of shoulder OA as a forensic age indicator using a modern North American sample of 206 individuals. Lipping, surface porosity, osteophyte formation, eburnation, and percentage of joint surface affected were recorded on an ordinal scale and summed to create composite scores that were assigned a specific phase. Spearman's correlation indicated a positive relationship between each composite score and age (right shoulder = 0.752; left shoulder = 0.734). Transition analysis revealed a tendency toward earlier degeneration of the right shoulder. Bayesian statistics generated phase-related age estimates based on highest posterior density regions. Best age estimates were into the seventh decade at the 90th and 50th percentile. The proposed method supplements traditional techniques by providing age estimates beyond a homogenous 50+ age cohort.

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“…İnsan iskeleti, kronik hastalığa, beslenme yetersizliğine ve mekanik yaralanmalara karşı reaktif tepkiler üretebilir. Arkeolojik insan kalıntılarında gözlenen hastalık izleri, beslenme eksikliği ve mekanik stres çalışmaları paleopatolojinin çalışma alanıdır (Smith, 2013). Bir disiplin olarak paleopatoloji, insan iskelet kalıntısındaki patolojik lezyonların bağlamsal analizi ve tanımıyla ilgilidir (Temple, 2017).…”

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Amasya İnsanlarında (Roma Dönemi) Sağlık Yapısı

Kirmizioğlu

Akbacak²

2019

Antropoloji

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56 skeletal remains were recovered from the salvage excavations carried out by the Amasya Museum Directorate between 1992-2012 at the archaeological sites dated to Roman Period in Amasya province and its surroundings. 2 (3,57%) of the individuals were defined as babies, 11 (19,64%) were children, 15 (26,79%) were female and 13 (23,21%) were male. The sex determination of the remaining 15 individuals (26,79%) could not be made because there was not enough criteria for sex determination. As a result of the paleopathological analysis of skeletal remains, lesions such as trauma (fracture), osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, rhomboid fossa, osteophyte and schmorl nodule were found in these individuals. In this study, the health structure of the people who lived in and around Amasya during the Roman Period was evaluated.

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Paleopathology

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Treponemal Disease, Tuberculosis and Subsistence‐settlement Pattern in the Late Woodland Period West‐central Illinois

Treponemal Disease, Tuberculosis and Subsistence‐settlement Pattern in the Late Woodland Period West‐central Illinois

A Bayesian Approach to Age‐at‐Death Estimation from Osteoarthritis of the Shoulder in Modern North Americans

Amasya İnsanlarında (Roma Dönemi) Sağlık Yapısı

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