Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2022

Juvenile health status in an island Neolithic population (Khirokitia, Cyprus, 7th-early 6th millennium BC)

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The site of Khirokitia, which illustrates the last phase of the Aceramic Neolithic in Cyprus, has yielded one of the most important series of human remains dated to the Aceramic Neolithic in the Near East (MNI = 243). Interesting features such as an unusual age distribution as well as a wide range of infantile and juvenile pathologies were observed. Given the insular context and the rarefaction of links with the continent during the Aceramic Neolithic leading to an "isolation" of the population, the study of its health status is particularly relevant. The juvenile sample (MNI = 135) includes a high proportion of infants under one year of age (81%) - most of whom died during the perinatal period – as well as a low proportion of juveniles over one year of age. Bone lesions are common. Macroscopic observations strongly suggest the existence of anemia, scurvy, infectious diseases and congenital anomalies. To access to the inner structure of the skulls with lesions and to strengthen the macroscopic diagnosis, microcomputed tomography (μ-CT) imaging techniques, which allows non-destructive study of pathologies, were applied to a selected set of individuals. The high proportion of perinates coupled with the high frequency of bone lesions in the sample indicate poor maternal/perinatal health status.

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Françoise Le Mort, Bérénice Chamel, Oussama Baker, Olivier Dutour, Hélène Coqueugniot. Juvenile health status in an island Neolithic population (Khirokitia, Cyprus, 7th-early 6th millennium BC). XVI Congreso Nacional e Internacional de Paleopatología, Asociacion Espanola de Paleopatologia, Apr 2022, Girona, Spain. ⟨hal-04896123⟩
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