Two Unusual Benign Tumours in Skulls from the Ossuary at Křtiny (Czech Republic)

An osseous lesion in the maxillary sinus—Tumour or tumour‐like?

“…Furthermore, early findings are documented in a Homo naledi individual from the Dinaledi Cave site in South Africa (Odes et al, 2016) and a Homo neanderthalensis individual from the Guattari Cave site in Italy (Colella, Cappabianca, Gerardi, & Mallegni, 2012). Numerous studies on tumours or tumour-like lesions exist from later phases of human history, and the results largely confirm the assumption that benign and malignant tumours are not just a modern phenomenon (e.g., Alt, Adler, Buitrago-Téllez, & Lohrke, 2002;Binder, Roberts, Spencer, Antoine, & Cartwright, 2014; Faguet, 2015; Grupe, 1988;Molto & Sheldrick, 2018;Nerlich, Rohrbach, Bachmeier, & Zink, 2006;Strouhal, Vhynánek, Horáčková, Benešová, & Němečková, 1996;Suzuki, 1987). With regard to incidences of benign and malignant bone tumours in the past, it can be stated in principle from the point of view of palaeopathology that bone tumours at the time exhibited the same range as today and that those neoplasm that are most frequently diagnosed today were also predominant in the past.…”

A possible case of an ossifying fibroma in a Late Neolithic population from Portugal

“…Two other unusual benign tumours in skulls have been described by Strouhal et al (1996) but those lesions were only destructive and not ossifying.…”

A case of multiple metastasis in Late Holocene hunter‐gatherers from the Argentine Pampean region

“…There are very few cases of metastatic cancer throughout the world identified from bioarchaeological evidence, although the number of papers that evaluate this issue have substantially increased during the last 20 years (Dastugue, 1980;Waldron, 1987;Strouhal, 1991;Rothschild & Rothschild, 1995;Strouhal et al, 1996;Roberts & Manchester, 1999;Ostendorf Smith, 2002;Capasso, 2005). The identification of a case of metastatic cancer in the context of the Chenque I site is very important since this is the first case in Argentina in which it is possible to identify neoplastic disease in a prehistoric burial.…”