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International Journal of Paleopathology

https://read.qxmd.com/read/38520801/evidence-of-non-adult-vitamin-c-deficiency-in-three-early-medieval-sites-in-the-jaun-podjuna-valley-carinthia-austria
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Magdalena T Srienc-Ściesiek, Nina Richards, Sabine Ladstätter, Sylvia Kirchengast
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to determine and discuss the prevalence of non-adult scurvy cases from the early medieval Jaun/Podjuna Valley in southern Austria. MATERIALS: 86 non-adult individuals were assessed from three early medieval sites. METHODS: Morphological characteristics associated with suggestive and probable scurvy were observed macroscopically and under 20-40x magnification. RESULTS: A significant relationship between the prevalence of scurvy and age group was observed...
March 22, 2024: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38447473/periodontitis-and-alveolar-resorption-in-human-skeletal-remains-the-relationship-between-quantitative-alveolar-bone-loss-occlusal-wear-antemortem-tooth-loss-dental-calculus-and-age-at-death-in-a-low-socioeconomic-status-modern-forensic-human-collection-from
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S Thamara Noriega Muro, Andrea Cucina
OBJECTIVE: This paper assesses the relationship between the distance between the cemento-enamel junction and alveolar crest and risk factors commonly associated with periodontitis. MATERIALS: Eighty individuals between 28 and 92 years old with known biological sex and age were analyzed from a 20th century forensic human collection from Merida, Yucatan (Mexico). METHODS: Macroscopic assessment, along with metric analysis, was employed using a probe...
March 5, 2024: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38377784/calcified-uterine-leiomyoma-from-an-18th-century-nunnery-in-north-italy
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Roberta Fusco, Chiara Tesi, Paolo Spina, Ezio Fulcheri, Marta Licata
OBJECTIVE: To develop a differential diagnosis of a mass retrieved alongside skeletal remains in the crypt of the church of Santissima Annunziata of Valenza (Province of Alessandria, Northern Italy). MATERIAL: A calcified mass measuring 40 × 39 mm and 17.62 × 16.3817.62 × 16.38 mm. METHOD: The analysis utilized macroscopic assessment and histologic examination (including histochemical and immunohistochemical analyses)...
February 19, 2024: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38325147/animal-disease-evidenced-in-the-bone-assemblage-of-a-late-neolithic-settlement-in-greece-implications-for-animal-management
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eleni K Samartzidou
OBJECTIVES: The objective of the paper is to interpret pathologies on faunal remains in an effort to evaluate the presence of husbandry practices. MATERIALS: Bones and bone fragments from the Neolithic site of Dispilio, Greece. Those of domestic species were further studied. METHODS: The pathological cases were examined macroscopically, the lesions were described, images were taken, and differential diagnoses were undertaken using published literature...
February 6, 2024: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38325146/disability-and-care-in-western-europe-during-medieval-times-a-bioarchaeological-perspective
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ileana Micarelli, Mary Anne Tafuri, Lorna Tilley
This Special Issue has its foundation in presentations delivered in the symposium Disability and Care in Medieval Times: a Bioarchaeological Perspective into Health-related Practices held at the 2019 European Association of Archaeologists conference in Switzerland. It comprises 12 papers, all relevant to aspects of pathology experience and/or care provision in Western Europe during the Early to Late Middle Ages (500 - 1500 CE). Reflecting the 1000 year timespan involved, these papers are characterised by diversity in subject matter and in the lifeways in which they are located, but all contribute to the symposium's primary aim: to demonstrate that our understanding of the Medieval period is enhanced by cross-disciplinary, bioarchaeological research into individual and collective experiences of disability and care...
February 6, 2024: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38244253/surgery-under-siege-a-case-study-of-leg-amputation-in-18th-century-louisbourg-nova-scotia-canada
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N Hughes, A B Scott, D Pitcher
OBJECTIVE: Paleopathological analysis of a below-knee amputation was conducted to explore the sociocultural reasons why the amputation took place. MATERIALS: Older adolescent male (18-21 years) from the New Englander mass burial at the 18th century Fortress of Louisbourg. METHODS: Macroscopic assessment and archival data. RESULTS: A surgical amputation of the right tibia and fibula, distal to the knee was identified...
January 19, 2024: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38218023/diagnostic-algorithm-allows-for-a-scientifically-robust-and-reliable-retrospective-diagnosis-using-textual-evidence-from-mid-19th-century-basel-switzerland
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Wolfgang Krüger
OBJECTIVE: Diagnosing disease from the past using historic textual sources can be controversial as to its accuracy. To overcome these objections, an empirical approach to the historical clinical data was developed. The approach follows a standardised, objective, and systematic evaluation, satisfying the requirements of the philosophy of science. MATERIAL: Physician-managed medical records of mid-19th century patients reported to have suffered from tuberculosis. METHOD: A diagnostic algorithm, quantifying clinical data into a scoring system, was developed based on criteria recorded in the medical sources...
January 12, 2024: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38181478/perspectives-on-anemia-factors-confounding-understanding-of-past-occurrence
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Megan B Brickley
OBJECTIVE: This paper reviews factors confounding the understanding of the past occurrence of anemia. Using the evidence gathered, a framework is presented of ways forward to enable greater confidence in diagnosing acquired anemia in paleopathology, facilitating insights into longer-term perspectives on this globally relevant condition. RESULTS: To date, porotic lesions have been central to paleopathological investigations of anemia. The fact that porotic bone lesions are omnipresent and have multiple causes but are likely to have a relatively low, age-related frequency in individuals with anemia, a condition that will have been common in past communities, is confounding...
January 4, 2024: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38176088/elemental-analysis-using-portable-x-ray-fluorescence-guidelines-for-the-study-of-dry-human-bone
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ricardo A M P Gomes, Ana Luisa Santos, Lidia Catarino
OBJECTIVE: X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is a non-destructive technique that measures the elemental concentration of different materials, including human bone. Recently, it began to be applied to paleopathological studies due to the development of portable devices and their relative ease of use. However, the lack of uniform procedures hampers comparability and reproducibility. This paper aims to provide guidelines for an efficient and standardized evaluation of bone elemental composition with a portable XRF (pXRF) device...
January 3, 2024: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38171073/a-case-of-rheumatoid-arthritis-in-a-nubian-woman-from-the-site-of-sheikh-mohamed-near-aswan-egypt
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Madeleine Mant, Mindy C Pitre, Sarah Dancer, Maria Carmela Gatto
OBJECTIVE: To differentially diagnose and contextualize pathological lesions suggestive of rheumatoid arthritis. MATERIALS: The skeletal remains of a 25-30-year-old female dated to c. 1750-1550 BCE from a Nubian Pan-Grave cemetery at the site of Sheik Mohamed, near Aswan, Egypt. METHODS: The skeletal remains were examined macroscopically and a differential diagnosis was conducted following established protocols in the palaeopathological literature...
January 2, 2024: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38159426/guidance-for-the-identification-of-bony-lesions-related-to-smallpox
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REVIEW
Rosie R Crawford, Claire M Hodson, David Errickson
OBJECTIVE: This research aimed to address the underrepresentation of smallpox (osteomyelitis variolosa) in palaeopathology, providing a synthesis of published literature and presenting guidance for the identification of osteomyelitis variolosa in non-adult and adult skeletal remains. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Literature regarding smallpox and published reports of individuals with osteomyelitis variolosa were synthesised and critiqued to produce clear diagnostic criteria for the identification of smallpox osteologically...
December 29, 2023: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38147742/chronic-maxillary-sinusitis-in-palaeopathology-a-review-of-methods
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REVIEW
Matthew James Lee, Thomas J Siek, Cara Stella Hirst
OBJECTIVE: This study reviews the palaeopathological literature discussing maxillary sinusitis to examine current trends and issues within the study of this condition, and to make recommendations for future research in this area. MATERIALS: Seventy-five studies were identified through a literature search of digital and physical sources. METHODS: Information regarding study metadata, the populations investigated, sinusitis diagnostic criteria, and sinusitis prevalence was examined...
December 25, 2023: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38134631/a-probable-case-of-lumpy-jaw-in-early-medieval-11th-12th-c-cattle-from-a-stronghold-in-kruszwica-poland
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Maciej Janeczek, Daniel Makowiecki, Edyta Pasicka, Aleksandra Rozwadowska, Rafał Ciaputa
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to try to determine the probable cause of the disease from which the study animal suffered. MATERIALS: The skeletal material included a caudal fragment of a cattle mandible. The specimen, exhibiting chronic disease was separated from approximately 10,000 early medieval cattle remains discovered during excavations of the former Kruszwica stronghold. METHODS: The bone was underwent macroscopic, radiological and histopathological examination...
December 21, 2023: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38134630/ageing-and-disease-risk-factors-a-new-paleoepidemiological-methodology-for-understanding-disease-in-the-past
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jo Appleby
OBJECTIVES: To outline a methodology that enables the reconstruction of age-related disease risk in past societies. MATERIALS: Modern epidemiological evidence considering risk factors for age-related disease is combined with contextual information about an archaeological society of interest. METHODS: Data gathered is used to create a qualitative population-specific risk model for the disease of interest. To provide a case study, a risk model is constructed for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in the Eastern English Bronze Age...
December 20, 2023: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38043140/eimeria-leuckarti-in-equid-coprolites-from-the-sassanid-era-2nd-6th-century-ce-excavated-in-chehrabad-salt-mine-archaeological-site-iran
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zeynab Askari, Alireza Sazmand, Gholamreza Mowlavi, Frank Rüehli, Saied Reza Naddaf, Mostafa Rezaeian, Thomas Stöllner, Abolfazl Aali, Niloofar Paknezhad, Domenico Otranto
OBJECTIVE: This study reports coccidian oocysts in an equid coprolite dated to the Sassanid Empire (2nd-6th century CE) recovered in Chehrabad Salt Mine archaeological site, Iran. METHODS: Between 2015 and 2017, an archaeoparasitological investigation led to the discovery of an equid coprolite in the Chehrabad Salt Mine archeological site, (Douzlakh), western Iran. Samples were rehydrated using trisodium phosphate solution and were examined by light microscopy. RESULTS: Seven oocysts of Eimeria leuckarti (Flesch, 1883) were identified; they were in various stages of sporulation...
December 2, 2023: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38039702/investigating-the-association-between-intestinal-parasite-infection-and-cribra-orbitalia-in-the-medieval-population-of-cambridge-uk
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tianyi Wang, Jenna M Dittmar, Sarah A Inskip, Craig Cessford, Piers D Mitchell
OBJECTIVE: Cribra orbitalia is believed to be a skeletal indicator of chronic anaemia, scurvy, rickets or related metabolic diseases. It has been suggested that it may be used as a proxy indicator for intestinal parasite infection, as parasites often cause anaemia today. Our aim is to investigate this association in the medieval population of Cambridge, UK. MATERIALS: Individuals excavated from the cemeteries of the Augustinian friary and All Saints by the Castle parish church, and aged from 7 to adulthood...
November 30, 2023: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38039701/dental-diseases-and-dental-wear-as-a-proxy-for-dietary-patterns-in-hellenistic-early-roman-menainon-sicily
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Antonio Caruso, Efthymia Nikita
OBJECTIVE: This paper explores dental diseases and wear as a proxy for dietary patterns in Hellenistic-early Roman Menainon. MATERIALS: This study includes 166 individuals (4th-1st c. BCE). METHODS: Carious lesions, dental calculus, antemortem tooth loss, and dental wear were recorded to explore male-female and adult-juvenile differences, and to position Menainon in the broader Hellenistic/early Roman world through comparisons with published data from other sites...
November 30, 2023: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37976757/activity-reconstruction-of-rangifer-tarandus-feet-in-fennoscandian-archaeology-methodological-considerations-and-application-to-archaeological-material-from-two-s%C3%A3-mi-habitation-sites
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Emily Hull, Anna-Kaisa Salmi, Mitchell Semeniuk
OBJECTIVE: This study explores the presence and prevalence of working Rangifer tarandus tarandus (domestic reindeer) through entheseal changes present in Rangifer tarandus phalanges at the Sámi habitation sites of Juikenttä and Nukkumajoki, located in Finland and dating from the 14th to the 18th centuries. MATERIALS: Modern samples (n = 23 phalanges, Rangifer tarandus fennicus; n = 60 phalanges, Rangifer tarandus tarandus non-working; n = 72 phalanges, Rangifer tarandus tarandus working) with known life histories...
November 15, 2023: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37918134/is-the-promontory-a-promising-site-to-diagnose-otitis-media-in-paleopathology-a-search-for-evidence
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stefan Flohr, Uwe Kierdorf, Horst Kierdorf, Albert Mudry
OBJECTIVE: The promontory of the middle ear was recently suggested to be an appropriate site for diagnosing otitis media (OM) in archaeological bones by endoscopic inspection. The present study scrutinized the underlying assumption that a bulgy, irregular promontorial surface represents a pathological condition. MATERIALS: We compared an allegedly healthy individual and an allegedly diseased individual in skeletal remains of two human individuals from the early Medieval period in Germany...
October 31, 2023: International Journal of Paleopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37913592/a-mature-ovarian-teratoma-from-new-kingdom-amarna-egypt
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Gretchen R Dabbs, Anna Stevens, Melinda King Wetzel
OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the fifth case of a mature ovarian teratoma reported in the bioarchaeological literature, contributing to the temporal and geographical distribution of known examples of this unusual pathology. MATERIALS: An 18-21-year-old female found in situ within a multi-chambered subterranean tomb in the North Desert Cemetery at Amarna, Egypt (founded c. 1345 BCE) was recovered associated with a multi-lobed roughly ovoid calcified mass and two associated teeth identified within the pelvic cavity...
October 30, 2023: International Journal of Paleopathology
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