Developmental Defects in the Spine

Initial Findings in Archaeological Cases from Córdoba Highlands (Argentina)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4720008
AutoresM Fabra (0000-0002-7269-6639, IDACOR/Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Laboratorio de Bioantropología, Museo de Antropología, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Córdoba CP Argentina, autor correspondente), Salega (0000-0003-4798-0897, IDACOR/Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Laboratorio de Bioantropología, Museo de Antropología, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Córdoba CP Argentina), S Salega
Ano2016
Volume26
Fascículo3
Páginas397-407
Data de publicação2016-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1047-482X • E-ISSN: 1099-1212
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/oa.2429
OpenAlexW2153760071
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas24

Congenital disorders are pathologies rarely found in archaeological cases. In recent years, however, there has been an increase in the number of reported cases, and a growing interest in understanding their development and implication as genetic markers within certain collections. In the central region of Argentina, researchers have begun to focus on issues related to the health of prehispanic populations from a bioarchaeological perspective. Between 1999 and 2012 our research group recovered, by rescue archaeological activities, a total number of 62 individuals from different archaeological sites in the province of Córdoba, from which only three individuals with pathologies classified as congenital were recorded (4.83%). Radiocarbon and contextual information sets these individuals in the late Holocene (2156 ± 86 and 920 ± 20 14C years BP). Hence, this work aims at presenting two pathological conditions deriving from congenital developmental abnormalities that arise during the first three months of pregnancy: (a) Klippel-Feil syndrome (type II) which was suffered by the individuals from the sites of Guasmara and El Vado, and (b) central sagittal fissure of the vertebral body or 'butterfly vertebra' as in the case of one individual from La Calera. We also analyse other lesions in these skeletons that may be associated with the conditions mentioned above, and we provide a thorough interpretation from an osteobiographical perspective. Copyright (c) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

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