Resource intensification and osteoarthritis patterns: changes in activity in the prehistoric Sacramento‐San Joaquin Delta region

Cheverko, Colleen M.; Bartelink, Eric J.

doi:10.1002/ajpa.23272

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“…Weiss and Jurmain (2007) also suggested that a missing element in any study of biomechanical changes, especially those associated with OA, is subadult risk, with an interest in establishing juvenile age of onset, injury, and activity intensity. Thus, most recent research on OA, entheseal changes, and CSG was careful to use population-oriented approaches, factor in age at death and sex, and note if subadults were affected (Austin, 2017;Becker, 2017;Becker and Goldstein, 2017;Cheverko and Bartelink, 2017;Domett et al, 2017;Palmer et al, 2016;Schrader and Buzon, 2017).…”

Section: Prior Uses Of Oa Entheses and Csgmentioning

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Osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry in the Andes: Usage, history, and future directions

Becker

2020

International Journal of Paleopathology

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Akin to approaches encouraged by Verano (1997) in the Andes, and Ortner (2011, 2012) for general paleopathological studies, this article focuses on accurate descriptions and definitions of osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry. By evaluating these conditions as part of biological responses to abnormal skeletal changes and biomechanical stress, this research discusses each condition's pathogenesis. Further, this article emphasizes a "small data" approach to evaluating these conditions in ancient culturally and biologically related human populations, where the study samples must have good skeletal preservation, where estimates of age and sex need to be included as major factors, and where abnormalities need to be described and evaluated. This article also discusses global clinical and osteological research on ways scholars are currently trying to establish industry-wide methods to evaluate osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry. Recent studies have focused on rigorous evaluation of methodological techniques, recording protocols, and interand intra-observer error problems. Additionally, scholars have focused on physical intensity of movement using biomechanics, evaluated burials of known occupation, and used complex statistical methods to help interpret skeletal changes associated with these conditions. This article also narrows to focus on these conditions within thematic "small data" areas throughout the Andes. This research concludes with describing future directions to understand skeletal changes, such as more multidisciplinary studies between osteologists and pathologists, collaborations with living people to collect CT, x-rays, or computer-aided motion capture, and a stronger focus on how these conditions correlate with intense biomechanical changes in younger individuals. Andean lifeways in terms of power, labor, economic activities, and identity. Early research correlated OA, entheses, and CSG as indicators of past activities, or used them to reconstruct movements associated with things like canoe paddling or spear throwing (e.g., Hawkey and Merbs, 1995; Kennedy, 1989; Merbs, 1983). Jurmain et al. (1999; 2012) have critiqued these approaches as "activity-only myopia," or a "Holy Grail" quest, identifying problems and concerns in description and interpretation with these methods. This has led to a reassessment of OA, entheses, and CSG, and an interrogation of if activity reconstruction in archaeological samples is even possible. Recent research on OA, entheses, and CSG has reevaluated methodological techniques, statistical assessments, recording protocols, inter-and intra-observer error problems, movement and biomechanics, and pathological changes on burials of known occupation, with no one solution (

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Section: Prior Uses Of Oa Entheses and Csgmentioning

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Osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry in the Andes: Usage, history, and future directions

Becker

2020

International Journal of Paleopathology

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“…In this study, 25 total surfaces in six synovial joints (shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, and ankle) and one synovial and fibrous joint (sacroiliac) were scored for OA (Table 1). Using these data, we evaluated if there were any significant variations between the two stylistic groups, as these may translate into evidence of subsistence strategy-based repetitive motion differences (Becker, 2016;Becker, 2017;Bridges, 1991;Bridges, 1992;Bridges, 1995;Cheverko & Bartelink, 2017;Cope, Berryman, Martin, & Potts, 2005;Domett, Evans, Chang, Tayles, & Newton, 2017;Jurmain, 1999;Walker-Bone & Palmer, 2002;Weiss & Jurmain, 2007).…”

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Evidence of osteoarthritis in the Tiwanaku Colony, Moquegua, Peru (AD500–1100)

Becker

Goldstein

2017

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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The Tiwanaku (AD 500-1100) colonized ecologically diverse, lower elevation areas to produce goods not easily grown in the high altitude heartland (3,800 m a.s.l.). One colony near presentday Moquegua, Peru (900-1,500 m a.s.l.) was composed of multiple Tiwanaku settlements.Colonists farmed products like maize and coca and transported goods via llama caravan between the colony and heartland. Two subsistence groups emerged in terms of settlement, those of "Chen Chen-style" affiliation associated with an agrarian lifestyle and those of "Omo-style" representing more of a pastoralist lifeway. Considering Tiwanaku people likely began light chores around 5 years of age (e.g., babysitting siblings), with heavier labour beginning at approximately 8 years of age, we questioned if these social and occupational differences translated into skeletal changes associated with osteoarthritis (i.e., porosity, lipping, osteophyte formation, and/or eburnation). Individuals from 5 sites, 2 that represent the Omo-style (M16 and M70) and 3 that are in the Chen Chen-style (M1, M10, and M43), were evaluated for osteoarthritis while controlling for age-at-death and sex using 25 total joint surfaces in the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, ankle, and sacroiliac. Overall, our comparisons show no combined significant differences between the Omo-style and Chen Chen-style groups. Instead, distinctions in osteoarthritis evidence by age-at-death and sex emerged, reflecting the likelihood of specific age-or sex-related tasks. Arthropathy evidence among children in elbow and ankle joints also supported the cultural legacy in the Andes that work begins at a relatively young age and would show up in patterns of adult osteoarthritis.

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“…El análisis de actividades se centró en la presencia de lesiones articulares asociadas a procesos no degenerativos (Britges 1992; Jurmain y Kilgore 1995; Resnick y Niwayama 1981, Burt et al 2013, Calce et al 2018, Cheverko y Bartelink 2017. Se distinguió entre la osteofitosis vertebral (OV, o Spondylosis deformans) y la osteoartritis (OA o artrosis) de las articulaciones sinoviales, incluyendo en esto último las facetas apofisarias de la parte posterior de la columna vertebral (Bridges 1992;Burt et al 2013;Jurmain y Kilgore 1995).…”

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Perfil bioantropológico de la población de Iglesia Colorada, valle de Copiapó, en época Inca

Morales¹,

Garrido²

2021

Boletín MNHN

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Este artículo presenta los resultados del análisis de los restos humanos del período Tardío recuperados en el sitio Iglesia Colorada, ubicado en el curso alto del valle del Río Copiapó. El objetivo principal es el identificar indicadores de modo de vida y actividad de la población del cementerio, mediante el análisis de su perfil demográfico, indicadores dentales, patologías articulares, alteraciones en la morfología del hueso, e indicadores de estrés fisiológico. Si bien el número de individuos no es suficiente para generar estimaciones estadísticas, se observa una distribución normal en las edades de muerte, una salud oral particularmente buena y escasos indicadores de estrés fisiológico. Pese a haber pocos individuos donde se pudo observar las superficies articulares, estas muestran estrés mecánico principalmente asociado a la carga de peso, a lo que se suman dos casos de alteraciones atípicas en clavículas. Finalmente se discute la presencia de algunas variaciones anatómicas que comúnmente se han interpretado como rasgos discretos, pero que podrían ser el resultado de actividades laborales.

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Resource intensification and osteoarthritis patterns: changes in activity in the prehistoric Sacramento‐San Joaquin Delta region

Cited by 17 publications

References 53 publications

Osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry in the Andes: Usage, history, and future directions

Osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry in the Andes: Usage, history, and future directions

Evidence of osteoarthritis in the Tiwanaku Colony, Moquegua, Peru (AD500–1100)

Perfil bioantropológico de la población de Iglesia Colorada, valle de Copiapó, en época Inca

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