Paleoanthropological Analysis of Pınarkent Roman Period Skeletons
Journal Title: Ankara Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi - Year 2015, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
Studies on human skeletal remains provide important information to understand the health and living conditions of the past populations. The aim of the present study is to report morphological and paleopathological examination of recently excavated human skeletal remains from the Pınarkent (Denizli). Archaeological site dated to Roman Period and consisted of 26 individuals (4 infant and child, 10 males, 10 females and 2 adults with unknown sexes) from graves. Pınarkent site contains dominantly middle aged adult people remains. Results of the osteological analyses showed the presence of the following classes of skeletal lesions: congenital diseases, inflectional diseases, joint diseases, lesions of jaws and teeth. This paleoanthropological finding contributes additional information towards understanding the state of health and living conditions associated with Roman Period of Anatolia.
Authors and Affiliations
Serkan Şahin, Zehra Özbulut, İsmail Özer, Mehmet Sağır, Erksin Güleç
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP334004
- DOI -
- Views 76
- Downloads 0
Corporate Social Responsibility: Positioning Effort of a Arguable Concept
This study criticizes the approaches that explains corporate social responsibility in terms of positivist theory, and problematizes these traditional and widely accepted views through post-positivist approaches. Followin...
Interviewing women of High “Echelon”, Is It Contradiction in Terms?
This article deals with issues of narrative, subjectivity and experience concerning the life histories of the women of high “echelon”. Despite the fact that oral history gained a widespread legitimacy in academic field,...
The Innovativeness Activities of Shannon Development Agency (Ireland)
The Regional Development Agency is an organization established to cooperate with actors as a catalyst and a supporter of local development to mobilize local resources and to increase competitive power. Regional Developme...
Comparison of Discourse-Phonology of Turkish and Russsian
Intonation plays a function on changing of the meaning according to speaker’s intention and listener’s inference in the process of perception and interpretation of message. In this study, based on the Speech Acts Theory...
Assessment of the Renewable Energy Potential in Turkey
Contemporary global environmental problems affect not only human beings but also humanity as a whole and put a threat on the continuation of human race on earth. Global warming, as a result of the fossil fuel usage, is t...