| Autor: |
Ushkova, Yuliia, Kozak, Oleksandra |
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Vilnius University Proceedings; 2022, Issue 6, p166-166, 1p |
| Abstrakt: |
The Bronze Age in the North Pontic region was a period of a widespread trepanation practice: 23 skulls with signs of trepanations and surgical interventions are examined in the present study. The majority of the cases originate from Catacomb culture burials. Only two of them are observed among Yamna culture materials. Most of the skulls in question belong to adult (adultus) and mature (maturus) males. Female skulls (mainly adultus) are twice fewer in the collection. Two out of four trepanation techniques described by F. P. Lisovsky were used during the Early and Middle Bronze Age in the North Pontic area. Most of these trepanations were made by scraping, and the lesions that form this group are generally healed. Besides this, two cases of boring-and-cutting trepanations were found in Catacomb culture burials from the Steppe region. None of them show signs of healing. The largest part of the lesions is located on the parietal bones (with a predominance of the left bone in the males, and the right in the females). Traces of preliminary trauma in the area of surgical interventions are observed in more than half of the cases. This confirms the idea that the main purpose of these operations was medical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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