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This brief communication documents a case of tarsal coalition in a 15-year-old (± 30 months) adolescent from the Old Burial Ground in Heuvelton, New York. Macroscopic examination revealed pseudoarticulation, along with bilateral bony changes such as nodular bone, trabecular exposure, and porosity on the calcanei, naviculars, cuboids, and tali. Thes...
Objective:
To evaluate pathological lesions suggesting the presence of rickets and to place the diagnosis into bioarchaeological and historical context.
Materials:
The remains of a 3-year ± 12-month-old child discovered during a rescue excavation in Heuvelton, New York.
Methods:
We examined the individual macroscopically and conducted a differ...
Cereal grinding has been practiced in Mesopotamia since the Upper Palaeolithic. While evidence of cereal grinding is clear from the archaeological and textual records, what remains unclear is whether the activity leaves signs on the skeleton in the form of markers of occupational stress (MOS). A particular constellation of MOS (e.g., osteoarthritis...
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This study sheds light on the agricultural economy that underpinned the emergence of the first urban centres in northern Mesopotamia. Using δ13C and δ15N values of crop remains from the sites of Tell Sabi Abyad, Tell Zeidan, Hamoukar, Tell Brak and Tell Leilan (6500–2000 cal BC), we reveal that labour intensive...
To date there has been a lack of palaeopathological evidence for the presence of scurvy in ancient Egypt. In this paper we describe one of, if not the first, differentially diagnosed bioarchaeological cases of subadult scurvy in the region in the skeleton of a 1-year +/− 4-month old infant recovered from the Predynastic site of Nag el-Qarmila (c. 3...
A rare defect of the sacrum was observed in the skeleton of an adult female from the Quaker Cemetery (1663–1814 CE) in Kingston-upon-Thames, England. This is an isolated finding in the skeletal collection and no other elements in this individual were similarly affected. After eliminating post-depositional damage and skeletal asymmetry, a differenti...
Members of the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project have been working since 2005 in the West Bank of the Nile, from Qubbet el-Hawa north to Kubbaniya north, Wadi Kubbaniya, Wadi Abu Subeira, and a section of the desert east of Kom Ombo. Both survey and rescue operations are performed, the latter as an answer to the urgency to save as many archaeol...
The Predynastic settlement and cemeteries discovered in Nag el-Qarmila are the southernmost preserved evidence of a Naqada domestic and funerary site (apart from Elephantine). Both radiometric dates and pottery analysis suggest a main use of the site during the first half of the 4th millennium (c. 3800-3600 BC), while a younger phase dated to the e...
