E Cunha
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 27480 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | E Cunha |
| NOMBRES | E |
| APELLIDO | Cunha |
| FIRMA | CUNHA E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Coimbra |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2998-371X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 523 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Echoes of Privilege
The mummified remains of a middle‐aged adult male were discovered in the Church of Saint Joseph of the Carpenters in Lisbon, Portugal. Likely dating to the 18th century, the body was naturally mummified, richly clothed, and buried within a church—an honor typically reserved for elite individuals. Radiographic analysis revealed classic signs of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH), a condition marked by flowing ossification along thorac…
Insights into the anatomical expressions of anencephaly in three infants from 17th to 19th- century Lisbon, Portugal
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to analyse and compare the cranial morphological variations in three individuals, each exhibiting different severity levels of malformations. MATERIALS: Three nearly complete and well-preserved skeletons of infants from the São Domingos children's necropolis in Lisbon, Portugal, dating from the 17th to early 19th centuries. METHODS: Macroscopic and metric assessments were performed aimed at creating a detailed descripti…
The first identified skeletal collection of the Azores archipelago, Portugal
Identified skeletal collections play a crucial role in anthropology, as the biographic information they contain enables the development and adaptation of population-specific identification methods, namely for biological profile (sex, age-at-death, stature, and ancestry). In Portugal, aside from academic systematic research, these collections also permit the training of new professionals while also providing an ethical destination for unclaimed sk…
Forensic identification in a multidisciplinary perspective focusing on big challenges
Combining anthropology and imaging to reconstruct antemortem trauma for identification purposes
Identification of unidentified remains involves a comparison of ante- and postmortem features using biological identifiers. Anthropological identifiers, referred to by International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) as secondary identifiers, have often been judged less reliable than DNA, fingerprints and dental records (referred to as primary identifiers). However, anthropological identifiers have been proven as discriminatory as the primar…
Metric analysis of the patella for sex estimation in a Portuguese sample
The biological profile estimation is the first step toward positive identification. However, it is not always possible to access a complete and well-preserved skeleton due to postmortem damage and taphonomic changes. As such, there is a need to develop new alternatives to analyze different bones of the human skeleton. The present study aims to analyze the patellar osteometry, with attention to its degree of sexual dimorphism, to establish a simpl…
Evaluation of data collection bias of third molar stages of mineralisation for age estimation in the living
Age assessment of the living is a fundamental procedure in the process of human identification, in order to guarantee fair treatment of individuals, which has ethical, civil, legal, and medical repercussions. The careful selection of the appropriate methods requires evaluation of several parameters: accuracy, precision of the method, as well as its reproducibility. The approach proposed by Mincer et al . adapted from Demirjian et al . exploring t…
Human identification by medical findings in a forensic anthropology context
Conventional identification methods may not always be applicable in forensic anthropology cases.The presented cases include a mass dam disaster, burnt human remains, and extensively decomposed human remains.These three cases involved successful human identification with medical findings comparisons using the shadow position technique.Identification could be established in these cases, despite challenges, such as fire damage, an incomplete body, a…
A skeletal dysplasia leading to a perinatal death in 17th–19th century Lisbon, Portugal
Congenital skeletal disorders are a heterogeneous group of anomalies that become evident during gestation. They are expressed in the shape and growth of the bones during development because of a defective genetic background. With the follow‐up of pregnant women and the advances in prenatal ultrasonographic examination and molecular genetic tests, nowadays, congenital skeletal disorders are identified at an early gestational age. If they are consi…
Exploring the interplay of bone lesions
This study analyzed the paleopathological conditions of a 30-year-old male unearthed at the site of Ya'amun in northern Jordan. The skeleton was dated back to Iron age. The paleopathological examinations were performed using macroscopic and radiological analyses. The results revealed multiple significant bone lesions, including periosteal osteosarcoma of the right femur, plagiocephaly, asymmetry of the sacrum, vertebral fractures, anemia, and ost…
Ancestry estimation in forensic anthropology
Ancestry estimation methods are seldom validated in Brazil.AncesTrees performed poorly on our sample, with a maximum accuracy of 70%.Brazil's highly mixed population hinders ancestry estimation.Mixed individuals (pardos) are predominantly classified as Europeans.The insertion of Brazilian metric data into the AncesTrees database would produce better results
Discrimination between falls and blows from the localization and the number of fractures on computed tomography scans of the skull and the trunk
The distinction between falls and blows is a common and difficult task in forensic sciences. One of the most often used criteria to address this issue is the hat brim line (HBL) rule, which states that fall-related injuries do not lie above the HBL. Some studies, however, have found that the use of HBL rule is not so relevant. This study assesses the aetiologies, the number of fractures, and their location on the skull and the trunk in a sample o…
Rib fractures in the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collection
There is a high prevalence of rib fractures in human remains from archeological contexts, but these are seldom the focus in paleopathological studies pertaining skeletal trauma. This study aims to document rib fracture patterns in the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collection, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra. Specific aims of this study included the estimation of rib fracture prevalence in 252 individuals, from both sexes (females…
Dating death
The estimation of the postmortem interval (PMI), particularly the late time since death, is a crucial issue when dealing with human remains. Its establishment is an important task for forensic scientists since it has important legal implications such as identifying a victim or prosecuting an offender. However, dating death is a very complex and challenging task due to the amount of intrinsic and extrinsic factors, that may influence the rate and …
Analysis of the Accuracy of AncesTrees Software in Ancestry Estimation in Brazilian Identified Sample
In the present study a software tool for craniometric ancestry estimation, AncesTrees, was evaluated in an identified Brazilian skeletal sample with known self-reported ancestry. Twenty-three craniometric measures were obtained from each skull and analyzed using AncesTrees software, with two classification strategies—tournamentForest and ancestralForest algorithm. The tournamentForest (53.54%) and ancestralForest algorithms with three ancestry gr…
The Unidentified Skeletal Collection of Capuchos Cemetery (Santarém) housed at the University of Coimbra
The aim of this article is to present to the scientific and academic community the Unidentified Skeletal Collection of the Capuchos Cemetery. The skeletons, of contemporary individuals, were collected from the same cemetery as those of the 21st Century Identified Skeletal Collection, but their identification is unknown. The collection is composed of 73 individuals, of which 68 are adults of both sexes (34 females, 33 males, and one individual of …
Validation of the DSP2 Tool in a Contemporary Identified Skeletal Collection from Northeastern Brazil
The Diagnose Sexuelle Probabiliste v.2 (DSP2) is an accurate tool used for estimating the sex of an individual through the os coxae. The goal of this study was to verify the applicability of the DSP2 tool in a skeletal sample from Northeastern Brazil and to attest for its precision, accuracy, and reliability. The sample was composed of 301 os coxae from the Center for Studies in Forensic Anthropology of the College of Odontology from the Universi…
Evaluation of ancestry from human skeletal remains
Ancestry assessment represents a major component of forensic anthropological analysis of recovered human remains. Interpretations of ancestry, together with other aspects of the biological profile, can help narrow the search of missing persons and contribute to eventual positive identification. Such information can prove useful to authorities involved in the identification and investigative process since many lists of missing persons have a refer…
Burned Fleshed or Dry? The Potential of Bioerosion to Determine the Pre-Burning Condition of Human Remains
The practice of cremation is often interpreted as an alternative to inhumation, taking place shortly after an individual’s death. However, cremation could be a final stage in complex mortuary practices, with previous steps that are obscured due to the heating process. This project reports on experimental scoping research on a set of experimentally heated femoral fragments from modern and archaeological collections of the University of Coimbra. Si…
Chemosteometric regression models of heat exposed human bones to determine their pre‐burnt metric dimensions
Objectives Heat exposure can lead to apparently random osteometric changes that hinder the application of metric methods used for biological profiling. The impracticality of using objective and burn‐specific osteometric methods reduces the chances of establishing the biological profiles of unknown individuals based on their skeletal remains. We investigated the potential of chemometry analysis based on infrared spectroscopy to predict the amount …
Degenerative variance on age-related traits from pelvic bone articulations and its implication for age estimation
Age at death estimation methods, when applied to skeletal remains of adults, have provided inaccurate results. These aging methods often depend on observations of the degenerative changes occurring at specific articulations, however, the effects of the aging process on the human skeleton are only partially known. Therefore a need exists to increase our understanding about the age related metamorphosis process to improve aging methods. The aim of …
Devolvendo a identidade
Age at death estimation by cementochronology
OBJECTIVES: Cementochronology based on annual deposition of acellular cementum is acknowledged for its superior performance for estimating age-at-death but is also disregarded because of its suspicious effectiveness. This article aims to provide a standardized framework for the validation of the technique and to define and test cementochronology's performance and limitations. MATERIALS AND METHODS: To determine the boundaries of the cementum agin…
Cortical bone loss in a sample of human skeletons from the Muge Shell middens
Fetal age at death estimation on dry bone
The paucity of identified skeletal collections that include fetuses entails the need to pursue unconventional approaches and resources in order to investigate fetal anatomical variation. Radiographic analyses are being considered as a good alternative to data obtained in osteological collections. In a previous work, we developed equations to estimate gestational age (GA) at death by measuring fetal long bones on x-rays. This study aims to test th…
DSP
Determination of the sex of human bone remains represents a crucial stage in any palaeoanthropological study. The palaeobiological or palaeoethnological interpretations depend on its reliability. It is acknowledged that the adult hip-bone (os coxae) is by far the best non-population-specific indicator for reliable sex determination of adults. However, we clarify here a certain number of limitations which lower the reliability and ease of applicat…
Validation and reliability of the sex estimation of the human os coxae using freely available DSP2 software for bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology
OBJECTIVES: A new tool for skeletal sex estimation based on measurements of the human os coxae is presented using skeletons from a metapopulation of identified adult individuals from twelve independent population samples. For reliable sex estimation, a posterior probability greater than 0.95 was considered to be the classification threshold: below this value, estimates are considered indeterminate. By providing free software, we aim to develop an…
Chaînes opératoires and resource-exploitation strategies in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) nut cracking
Implications of heat-induced changes in bone on the interpretation of funerary behaviour and practice
Dental size variation in the Atapuerca-SH Middle Pleistocene hominids
The costal remains of the El Sidrón Neanderthal site (Asturias, northern Spain) and their importance for understanding Neanderthal thorax morphology
The study of the Neanderthal thorax has attracted the attention of the scientific community for more than a century. It is agreed that Neanderthals have a more capacious thorax than modern humans, but whether this was caused by a medio-lateral or an antero-posterior expansion of the thorax is still debated, and is key to understanding breathing biomechanics and body shape in Neanderthals. The fragile nature of ribs, the metameric structure of the…
Enamel hypoplasias and physiological stress in the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene hominins
This study presents an analysis of linear enamel hypoplasias (LEH) and plane‐form defects (PFD) in the hominine dental sample from the Sima de los Huesos (SH) Middle Pleistocene site in Atapuerca (Spain). The SH sample comprises 475 teeth, 467 permanent and 8 deciduous, belonging to a minimum of 28 individuals. The method for recording PFD and LEH is discussed, as well as the definition of LEH. The prevalence of LEH and PFD in SH permanent dentit…
Rasudas
The use of crown and root morphology to estimate population relationships has a long history in dental anthropology. Over the past two decades, methods employing dental morphology within forensic anthropology have been formalized with the incorporation of statistical models. This paper presents a new web-based application (rASUDAS) that estimates the ancestry of unknown individuals based on their suite of tooth crown and root traits. The applicat…
Dental caries in a Portuguese identified skeletal sample from the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Dental caries was investigated in 600 adult dentitions belonging to the identified osteological collections of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Coimbra, Portugal (late 19th/early 20th centuries). The main advantage of this sample compared to an archaeological source is the presence of known demographic parameters such as age, sex, and occupation. The aim of this study is to investigate the issues involved in comparing caries data derived…
Burned Fleshed or Dry? The Potential of Bioerosion to Determine the Pre-Burning Condition of Human Remains
The practice of cremation is often interpreted as an alternative to inhumation, taking place shortly after an individual’s death. However, cremation could be a final stage in complex mortuary practices, with previous steps that are obscured due to the heating process. This project reports on experimental scoping research on a set of experimentally heated femoral fragments from modern and archaeological collections of the University of Coimbra. Si…
Periodontal disease in a Portuguese identified skeletal sample from the late nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries
Periodontal status was investigated in 600 adult dentitions belonging to the identified osteological collections curated at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. These collections date to a point temporally intermediate between the large epidemiological studies of the 20th century and archaeological collections that antedate the 19th century. The aim of this study is to compare periodontal data derived from contemporary samples with statistics com…
The Effect of Terrain on Entheseal Changes in the Lower Limbs
One of the main factors involved in entheseal changes (EC) aetiology may be related to the physiological limits of biomechanical loading fixed during bone development, such that higher load during childhood and the adolescent growth spurt leads to a lower frequency of EC during adulthood. In this sense, it is possible that ECs may be related to overloading beyond an individual's normal physiological limits as established during childhood and adol…
The osteological series from Cabeço Da Amoreira (Muge, Portuga)
In the present paper we present the first anthropological results for one of the most classic European Mesolithic sites, the Cabeço da Amoreira, hereafter Amoreira, on the Muge tributary of the Tagus River in central Portugal. Apart from this one, there are three more shell middens on the Tagus river: Moita do Sebastião, Cabeço da Arruda and the lesser known, Cova da Onça. While human remains from Moita and Arruda are well known, the osteological…
Cortical bone loss in a sample of human skeletons from the Muge Shell middens
Ancestry Estimation Based on Morphoscopic Traits in a Sample of African Slaves from Lagos, Portugal (15th-17th Centuries)
In 2009, a skeletal collection of 158 individuals was excavated in Valle da Gafaria, Lagos, Portugal. These individuals were buried in an unusual way, having been discarded in an urban dump located outside the medieval city walls, dated from the 15th-17th centuries. Lagos was, at the time, an important slave trade harbour, and during the excavation, the morphological appearance of the skulls and the presence of intentionally modified teeth in som…
Bridging the gap between forensic anthropology and osteoarchaeology-a case of vascular pathology
We report on two cases of similar bony lesions and emphasize the importance of cooperative work between forensic anthropology and forensic pathology. A fairly well preserved cadaver of an old woman was autopsied by a forensic team at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine in Portugal. Although age at death and sex were easily determined, there was insufficient other evidence for personal identification. However, the female revealed severe an…
Bone weight
Skeletal weight and/or weight of the different bones of the human skeleton are currently used in a wide range of applications such as archaeological cremations and forensics. Still, few reference values are available that compare the mean weights for the different skeletal parts. In this paper we present new reference values for total skeletal weight, including the weight of the different skeletal bones based on a modern Portuguese Identified Ske…
Chemosteometric regression models of heat exposed human bones to determine their pre‐burnt metric dimensions
Objectives Heat exposure can lead to apparently random osteometric changes that hinder the application of metric methods used for biological profiling. The impracticality of using objective and burn‐specific osteometric methods reduces the chances of establishing the biological profiles of unknown individuals based on their skeletal remains. We investigated the potential of chemometry analysis based on infrared spectroscopy to predict the amount …
Crystal clear
OBJECTIVES: Vibrational spectroscopy is a valuable tool for the study of burned skeletal remains. Nonetheless, most investigations have been focused on a limited number of samples as well as on faunal bones rather than human bones. Conclusions based on those investigations may lack representativeness, namely about the intrabone, intra- and interskeleton variability of several chemometric indices. We aimed to investigate this issue on a large samp…
Vertebral Compression Fractures
Vertebral compression fractures are the most common osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women. Notwithstanding, its clinical diagnosis remains ambiguous. In paleopathological studies, vertebral fractures and/or deformations are frequently disregarded. When observed, vertebral compression fractures are usually recorded without the support of quantifiable and comparable protocols. As such, Genant's semi-quantitative method for vertebral compre…
Metacarpal cortical bone loss and osteoporotic fractures in the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collection
There has been considerable progress in recent years in our understanding of the patterns of cortical bone loss in the second metacarpal in archeological skeletal samples. Nevertheless, cortical data from reference skeletal collections are insufficient, and the possible connection of metacarpal cortical parameters with osteoporotic fractures has not been thoroughly addressed. As such, this article aims to identify and explain sex-specific and age…
Children at the Convent
Age at death estimation by cementochronology
OBJECTIVES: Cementochronology based on annual deposition of acellular cementum is acknowledged for its superior performance for estimating age-at-death but is also disregarded because of its suspicious effectiveness. This article aims to provide a standardized framework for the validation of the technique and to define and test cementochronology's performance and limitations. MATERIALS AND METHODS: To determine the boundaries of the cementum agin…
Multiple osteochondromas in a 16th–19th century individual from Setúbal (Portugal)
An archaeological survey at the church of Nossa Senhora da Anunciada (Setúbal, Portugal) uncovered the remains of 92 individuals. Historical and archaeological data suggest that the inhumations occurred between 1531 and 1839. The present work reports the pathological features of a mature male individual exhibiting multiple osseous bony projections and bone deformity, mainly affecting the metaphyseal and adjacent diaphyseal regions of the long bon…
Better a Broader Diagnosis Than a Misdiagnosis
The paleopathological record of neoplastic conditions in the past is considered scarce. The detection of tumours in ancient populations is hindered by the quality and quantity of signs visible on the skeleton, the methodological approach, the preservation of remains, and by difficulties of differential diagnosis. The aims of this paper are to report the extensive and multiple osteolytic lesions observed in an adult male and to discuss the possibl…
The construction of sex discriminant functions from a large collection of skulls of known sex
The suitability of the large collection of skulls of known sex (n♂=357, n⧫=213), housed in the Department of Anthropology of the University of Coimbra, as a reference series for sex diagnosis from skulls, was investigated. This was done by calculating estimates for the maximum «actual discriminatory value for samples being diagnosed». here called Dt max. The estimates for this statistic were found to be relatively low. Depending on the estimation…
Genetic structure of the Azores
Flores is one of the smallest and most westerly islands of the Atlantic archipelago of the Azores. This preliminary account of the population's demography and genetic structure uses dispensations to contract consanguineous marriages taken from the Roman Catholic marriage registers in order to estimate mean inbreeding rates in the population over the period 1860-1980. Comparisons are made with inbreeding rates on the Portuguese mainland and elsewh…
Évolution de la maladie hyperostosique à Coimbra de l'époque médiévale à la fin du XIXe siècle
Cunha Eugénia. Évolution de la maladie hyperostosique à Coimbra de l'époque médiévale à la fin du XIXe siècle. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 5 fascicule 1-2, 1993. pp. 313-320
What can bones tell about labour and occupation
The chance to correlate the occurrence of skeletal markers of occupational stress with the lifetime occupations is very rare. The Identified Skeletal Collection of the Anthropological Museum of the University of Coimbra has a conjunction of factors that makes it ideal for this kind of research: the sample is large, the skeletons are well preserved and for each individual there is an obituary record with several identification data including occup…
War lesions from the famous Portuguese Medieval battle of Aljubarrota
The corpses of the warriors of the famous battle of Aljubarrota, 1385, were laid in disorder in a common burial ground at the battlefield. The material was excavated in 1958 and then transferred, at least partly, to the Department of Anthropology of the Coimbra University (Portugal). The sample consists of 400 individuals represented mainly by their long bone fragments. Complete bones are an exception which implies that it is not possible with th…
War lesions from the famous Portuguese Medieval battle of Aljubarrota
Children at the Convent
Bioarqueologia em Serpa
Res_por:Apresentam-se os dados antropologicos mais relevantes da analise de um pequeno conjunto de esqueletos recuperados durante a intervencao arqueologica no lugar de Alpendre dos Lagares (Serpa). Trata-se de uma amostra antropologica interessante nao so por se tratar de um pequeno nucleo alto-medieval, mas tambem pelas caracteristicas paleo- biologicas dos individuos em analise passiveis de nos revelarem aspectos importantes das sua vidas. Sao…
Dental size variation in the Atapuerca-SH Middle Pleistocene hominids
The osteological series from Cabeço Da Amoreira (Muge, Portuga)
In the present paper we present the first anthropological results for one of the most classic European Mesolithic sites, the Cabeço da Amoreira, hereafter Amoreira, on the Muge tributary of the Tagus River in central Portugal. Apart from this one, there are three more shell middens on the Tagus river: Moita do Sebastião, Cabeço da Arruda and the lesser known, Cova da Onça. While human remains from Moita and Arruda are well known, the osteological…
New anthropological data on the Mesolithic communities from Portugal
Influencia de las patologías en los indicadores de edad adulta del coxal
Para valorar la incidencia de algunas patologías (artritis reumatoide, artritis crónica juvenil, espondilitis anquilosante, artritis psoriásica, síndrome de Reiter, y tuberculosis ) en los indicadores de edad del coxal adulto, se realizó una revisión bibliográfica de los datos clínicos actuales. También se analizó la relación de la pérdida ósea de las variables de la superficie auricular y el acetábulo. Para ello fueron utilizados 43 individuos d…
Enamel hypoplasias and physiological stress in the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene hominins
This study presents an analysis of linear enamel hypoplasias (LEH) and plane‐form defects (PFD) in the hominine dental sample from the Sima de los Huesos (SH) Middle Pleistocene site in Atapuerca (Spain). The SH sample comprises 475 teeth, 467 permanent and 8 deciduous, belonging to a minimum of 28 individuals. The method for recording PFD and LEH is discussed, as well as the definition of LEH. The prevalence of LEH and PFD in SH permanent dentit…
Bridging the gap between forensic anthropology and osteoarchaeology-a case of vascular pathology
We report on two cases of similar bony lesions and emphasize the importance of cooperative work between forensic anthropology and forensic pathology. A fairly well preserved cadaver of an old woman was autopsied by a forensic team at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine in Portugal. Although age at death and sex were easily determined, there was insufficient other evidence for personal identification. However, the female revealed severe an…
DSP
Determination of the sex of human bone remains represents a crucial stage in any palaeoanthropological study. The palaeobiological or palaeoethnological interpretations depend on its reliability. It is acknowledged that the adult hip-bone (os coxae) is by far the best non-population-specific indicator for reliable sex determination of adults. However, we clarify here a certain number of limitations which lower the reliability and ease of applicat…
A linguagem das fracturas
Os ossos, o material mais resistente do corpo humano, têm uma capacidade ímpar para registar muitos episódios ocorridos em vida, na altura da morte e até mesmo depois da morte. As lesões traumáticas estão entre as marcas deixadas nos ossos mais informativas, o que faz delas uma fonte única de registos sobre violência, cabendo ao antropólogo forense a tarefa de as decifrar. As lesões traumáticas relacionadas com a morte são as mais violentas, razã…
Are bone losers distinguishable from bone formers in a skeletal series? Implications for adult age at death assessment methods
Os vestígios osteológicos humanos do Paleolítico Português
O estudo da evolução humana resulta da conjugação de várias áreas científicas, \ncomo a Arqueologia, esta caracterizando os contextos geológicos e socioculturais \nem cada época, e a Antropologia física, contribuindo para a interpretação dos dados \nfornecidos pelos vestígios osteológicos humanos. O Paleolítico assume-se como \num dos períodos mais importantes no processo evolutivo humano, já que entre os \n4,5 milhões de anos e os 10,000 anos, s…
Sinais de fogo
Do espólio recuperado na escavação do tholos OP2b, localizado em Olival \nda Pega, no concelho de Reguengos de Monsaraz, e de cronologia Neolítico final/ \nCalcolítico, foram estudadas 5404 peças ósseas cremadas, 5365 das quais humanas, \ncom vista a obter informações antropológicas de índole paleodemográfica, paleopatológica \ne tafonómica. O método utilizado consistiu na observação macroscópica \nrecorrendo, quando necessário, à lupa. \nVerific…
Chaînes opératoires and resource-exploitation strategies in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) nut cracking
Dental caries in a Portuguese identified skeletal sample from the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Dental caries was investigated in 600 adult dentitions belonging to the identified osteological collections of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Coimbra, Portugal (late 19th/early 20th centuries). The main advantage of this sample compared to an archaeological source is the presence of known demographic parameters such as age, sex, and occupation. The aim of this study is to investigate the issues involved in comparing caries data derived…
Bone weight
Skeletal weight and/or weight of the different bones of the human skeleton are currently used in a wide range of applications such as archaeological cremations and forensics. Still, few reference values are available that compare the mean weights for the different skeletal parts. In this paper we present new reference values for total skeletal weight, including the weight of the different skeletal bones based on a modern Portuguese Identified Ske…
Some reflections on the popularity of forensic anthropology today
Comme le titre l'indique, cet article présente des réflexions sur l'anthropologie médicolégale et discute les raisons à l'origine de sa popularité. Sans revenir sur un historique de cette science, nous nous attacherons à commenter la situation actuelle en analysant les questions importantes soulevées par les scientifiques de ce domaine. Les contributions passées et présentes des anthropologues médicolégaux doivent être adaptées aux besoins de la …
A 14th-17th century osteoporotic hip fracture from the Santa Clara-a-Velha Convent in Coimbra (Portugal)
Osteoporosis is an evocative term for a metabolic disorder characterized by loss of bone mass and organization, which predisposes to fracture. The clinical consequences of osteoporosis lie in the problems associated with it, specifically hip, Colles and vertebral fractures. We present here an extracapsular fracture of the proximal femur in an aged female skeleton from the Santa Clara-a-Velha Monastery (14th-17th centuries) in Coimbra, Portugal. T…
Implications of heat-induced changes in bone on the interpretation of funerary behaviour and practice
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