Test of the auricular surface sex estimation method in fetuses and non-adults under 5 years old from the Lisbon and Granada Reference Collections

Luna, Leandro; Aranda, Claudia; Calleja, Álvaro M. Monge; Santos, Ana Luı́sa

doi:10.1007/s00414-020-02431-9

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“…The age at death was estimated through dental development and eruption (AlQahtani et al, 2010), fusion of cranial and postcranial bones (Cunningham et al, 2016), and the length of the long bones (Cardoso et al, 2014). The biological sex estimation was based on mandibular morphology (Schutkowski, 1993) and morphological and metric analyses of the auricular surface (Luna et al, 2017(Luna et al, , 2021Monge Calleja et al, 2020). The ages of enamel hypoplasia formation were obtained following Thomas et al (2019) and Reid and Dean (2000).…”

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Possible thalassemia intermedia in a child (16th–18th century) from the westernmost part of Europe: potential association with malaria and past migrations

Monge Calleja,

Lourenço,

Macedo

et al. 2024

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This study describes a non-adult individual with bone features suggestive of β-thalassemia, a disease commonly found in malaria-endemic regions today and in the past. The skeleton of a 5.5-to 6.5-year-old child exhumed from a 16th-to 18th-century CE necropolis in Almeirim (Portugal) was examined macroscopically, with a scanning electron microscope, and by conventional radiology and computed tomography. This individual shows frontoparietal diploic hyperplasia with a slight hair-onend radiographic appearance and an exuberant serpiginous pattern. The orbital roofs have a plaque-like formation and facial bones display new bone proliferation and porosity. The teeth show caries, calculus deposition, anomalies on the four deciduous canine roots, and linear enamel hypoplasia on the first permanent right upper central incisor. The postcranial skeleton presents osteopenic trabecular appearances, cribra humeralis, and cribra femoralis, the latter associated with malaria. A second non-adult individual (2.5-3.5 years old) had similar lesions in the cranium, raising the question of whether they were siblings. The lesions are consistent with β-thalassemia intermedia, a homozygous or compound heterozygous hemoglobinopathy found in malaria-endemic regions, such as Almeirim, due to the protective advantage conferred by β-thalassemia carriers. Thalassemia presents a wide spectrum of lesions common in other hemolytic anemias, which makes the diagnosis a challenge. Hopefully, biomolecular techniques will assist the diagnosis in skeletonized individuals. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first possible case of thalassemia in the westernmost part of Europe, in a region currently with high prevalence of hemoglobinopathies, attributed to the past Islamic and sub-Saharan presence, and in an area historically affected by malaria.

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Possible thalassemia intermedia in a child (16th–18th century) from the westernmost part of Europe: potential association with malaria and past migrations

Monge Calleja,

Lourenço,

Macedo

et al. 2024

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“…This happens since some techniques have been developed from regionally diverse, non-contemporary, and in part even non-identified skeletal samples, which limits their application to contemporary remains and remains that are temporally and spatially different from the methods' reference samples [17]. Secular trends have been identified for several features of the biological profile [18][19][20]. Nevertheless, non-contemporary collections also remain important, as they can contribute to human variation understanding, and many of them include samples with well-documented traumatic, pathological, and taphonomical changes [17].…”

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The Assembly of a New Human Osteological Collection: The XXI CEIC as a Forensic Pedagogical Tool

Caldas,

Dinis-Oliveira,

Azevedo

et al. 2023

Forensic Sciences

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This technical note aims to characterize and contextualize the creation of a new collection of identified skeletons stored in the University Institute of Health Sciences—CESPU. This project presents unique and innovative pedagogical opportunities, with students actively involved in the cleaning and processing of the bones and antemortem/postmortem information gathering, as well as in anthropology research projects. This XXI Century Identified Skeletal Collection is composed of 98 complete adult skeletons of both sexes and is still expanding, being the 10th contemporary collection available in Portugal. The skeletons consist exclusively of Portuguese nationals who died between 1946 and 2007, and the 42% that have been processed so far are in good preservation. Comparative learning outcomes after implementing this active learning strategy are not yet available. Improvements are expected since more participation and enthusiasm in classes and research were perceived.

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Age estimation in infant and prenatal individuals through the metric development of the pars petrosa and squamosal portion of the temporal bone

et al. 2023

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Test of the auricular surface sex estimation method in fetuses and non-adults under 5 years old from the Lisbon and Granada Reference Collections

Cited by 8 publications

References 42 publications

Possible thalassemia intermedia in a child (16th–18th century) from the westernmost part of Europe: potential association with malaria and past migrations

Possible thalassemia intermedia in a child (16th–18th century) from the westernmost part of Europe: potential association with malaria and past migrations

The Assembly of a New Human Osteological Collection: The XXI CEIC as a Forensic Pedagogical Tool

Age estimation in infant and prenatal individuals through the metric development of the pars petrosa and squamosal portion of the temporal bone

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