1. CRANIAL AND POST-CRANIAL TRAUMATIC INJURY PATTERNS IN VAN CASTLE MOUND MEDIEVAL POPULATION
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YİĞİT, AYHAN, Basibuyuk, Gulusan Ozgun, Kaya, Ferhat, Basoglu, Oksan, ERKMAN, AHMET CEM, GÖZLÜK KIRMIZIOĞLU, PINAR, Yalcin, Yarenkur Alkan, Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Antropoloji Bölümü, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Evolutionary Palaeontology group, [Erkman, Ahmet Cem -- Yalcin, Yarenkur Alkan] Ahi Evran Univ, Fac Arts & Sci, Dept Anthropol, Kirsehir, Turkey -- [Basoglu, Oksan] Gazi Univ, Fac Letters, Dept Archaeol, Ankara, Turkey -- [Basibuyuk, Gulusan Ozgun -- Kirmizioglu, Pinar Gozluk -- Yigit, Ayhan] Cumhuriyet Univ, Fac Letters, Dept Anthropol, Sivas, Turkey -- [Kaya, Ferhat] Univ Helsinki, Dept Geosci & Geog, Helsinki, Finland, Kaya, Ferhat -- 0000-0003-0900-3390, and ERKMAN, AHMET CEM -- 0000-0003-3382-1019
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060101 anthropology ,060102 archaeology ,paleopathology ,DEATH ,06 humanities and the arts ,LAKE VAN ,Trauma ,615 History and Archaeology ,SKELETAL AGE ,CLIMATE ,FRACTURES ,fracture ,TURKEY ,0601 history and archaeology ,Anatolia ,trepanation ,BONE ,VIOLENCE - Abstract
WOS: 000388593800006, The excavations conducted at Van Castle Mound, East Anatolia, between 1987 and 2010 uncovered a total of 328 human skeletons dating back to the Medieval period. Thirty trauma cases were identified within the collection, constituting 9.14% of the entire population. Typology and distribution of the trauma among different sexes indicated that depression fractures, oblique fractures, comminuted fractures, and head deformation were more frequently observed in male skeletons, while a post-fractural infection appeared only in a female skeleton. Trauma cases were more common on post-cranial bones. In addition, a trepanned cranial specimen belonging to a mature individual is identified in which grooving technique was performed. Most of the observed trauma cases were related to heavy labor, unsafe working conditions, and challenges of everyday agrarian life. Previous paleopathological studies from the Medieval Van Castle Mound also indicates an insufficient nutritation and high physical stress.
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- 2016