An accident at work? Traumatic lesions in the skeleton of a 4th millennium BCE "wagon driver" from Sharakhalsun, Russia.
| Autor: | Tucker K; Department of Natural Sciences, German Archaeological Institute, 14195 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: katie.tucker@winchester.ac.uk., Berezina N; Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Moscow State University, 123001 Moscow, Russia., Reinhold S; Eurasia Department, German Archaeological Institute, 14195 Berlin, Germany., Kalmykov A; Nasledie, 355006 Stavropol, Russia., Belinskiy A; Nasledie, 355006 Stavropol, Russia., Gresky J; Department of Natural Sciences, German Archaeological Institute, 14195 Berlin, Germany. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Homo : internationale Zeitschrift fur die vergleichende Forschung am Menschen [Homo] 2017 Aug; Vol. 68 (4), pp. 256-273. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Jun 01. |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jchb.2017.05.004 |
| Abstrakt: | The study of ante-mortem trauma is a popular and important aspect of palaeopathological analysis. The majority of publications focus on a particular assemblage, skeletal element or type of fracture, with case studies of single individuals with multiple/unusual traumata being much rarer in the literature. This paper presents the case of an adult male from the Bronze Age site of Sharakhalsun, Russia, buried, uniquely, in a sitting position on a fully assembled wagon, who displayed evidence for multiple healed ante-mortem fractures of the cranium, axial and appendicular skeleton. The mechanisms and likely etiologies of the fractures are presented, with reference to modern and 19th century clinical literature, and possible interpretations suggested: that the individual was involved in a severe accident involving a wagon or draft animals, or both, a number of years before his death. The suggestion is also made that the unique burial position of the individual was a form of commemoration by the community of the survival and recovery of the individual from such a serious incident. (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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