Traumatic Injuries in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Population from Łekno, Poland

Bibliographic Data

ID12940490
AuthorsA Myszka (0000-0003-1327-3369, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume3
Issue2/2012
Pages237-243
Publication date2012-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInterdisciplinaria Archaeologica - Natural Sciences in Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1804-848X • E-ISSN: 2336-1220
PublisherArcheologické centrum Olomouc (PUBLISHER • CZ)
DOI10.24916/iansa.2012.2.6
OpenAlexW2182214467
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited25

the aim of this study was to document the traumatic injuries in the late medieval and early modern population from ekno, Poland (13 th -16 th centuries AD). The authors studied 247 skeletons (147 males; 81 females; 19 unsexed individuals). In a first step, tauma prevalence rate was calculated with reference to the number of individual skeletons affected. These data were compared with the data from other Polish skeletal series (Cedynia, Czersk, Zota Piczowska, Toru, Saboszewo, Doktorce). Traumatic injury frequencies in ekno poulation were also calculated with reference to the long bones (clavicula, humerus, radius, femur, tibia, fibula). The obtained results were compared with the simillar data from the selected populations from Central Europe -Slavonic population from the Czech Republic (Pohansko u Beclavi; 8 th -10 th centuries ad) The frequency of injuries in the ekno population was 12.1%. The bones with most frequent evidence of trauma were clavicula and ulna. According to injuries the ekno population does not differ from the population from Doktorce, Saboszewo, Toru, but it does differ from populations from Czersk, Cedynia, Zota Piczowska. The ekno population does not differ from the populations from the Czech Republic and Croatia

Czech · Femur · Fibula · Geography · Humerus · Population · Tibia · Ulna · Demography · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Medicine · Surgery