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Publisher: Antiquity Publications
Date: 08-2018
DOI: 10.15184/AQY.2018.69
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2019
Publisher: University of Washington Libraries
Date: 24-01-2008
Publisher: S. Karger AG
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1159/000242411
Abstract: The seminal development of control of food production and its social and biological effects on human populations has for a long time been one of the foci of prehistoric research. The relationship between diet and oral pathology is well recognised and accepted to the point where rates of dental caries in particular have been seen as indicative of subsistence mode. This is despite the complex aetiology of caries, with both genetic and environmental factors other than diet contributing to lesion frequency. Most publications considering prehistoric diet and caries acknowledge the contribution of non-dietary variables but provide a more comfortable dietary explanation, with the role of domesticated starchy staples paramount. This widespread acceptance of a simple relationship between dental pathology and starchy carbohydrates needs to be challenged, as there is no reason why one dietary component would be solely responsible for the development of caries or why all carbohydrates should have the same effect. Some years ago, on the basis of evidence from prehistoric rice farming communities in Southeast Asia, we questioned the relationship between dental caries and the presumptive increased carbohydrate consumption consequent to the adoption of agriculture. This paper reviews recent literature on the topic and presents evidence that there is still no simple or universally applicable explanation for patterns of changes in caries frequencies during human prehistory.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-03-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-021-83978-4
Abstract: Thalassemias are inherited blood disorders that are found in high prevalences in the Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. These diseases provide varying levels of resistance to malaria and are proposed to have emerged as an adaptive response to malaria in these regions. The transition to agriculture in the Holocene has been suggested to have influenced the selection for thalassemia in the Mediterranean as land clearance for farming encouraged interaction between Anopheles mosquitos, the vectors for malaria, and human groups. Here we document macroscopic and microscopic skeletal evidence for the presence of thalassemia in both hunter-gatherer (Con Co Ngua) and early agricultural (Man Bac) populations in northern Vietnam. Firstly, our findings demonstrate that thalassemia emerged prior to the transition to agriculture in Mainland Southeast Asia, from at least the early seventh millennium BP, contradicting a long-held assumption that agriculture was the main driver for an increase in malaria in Southeast Asia. Secondly, we describe evidence for significant malarial burden in the region during early agriculture. We argue that the introduction of farming into the region was not the initial driver of the selection for thalassemia, as it may have been in other regions of the world.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2023
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 10-03-2021
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0247167
Abstract: The megalithic jar sites of Laos (often referred to as the Plain of Jars) remain one of Southeast Asia’s most mysterious and least understood archaeological cultures. The sites, recently inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage, host hollowed stone jars, up to three metres in height, which appear scattered across the landscape, alone or clustered in groups of up to more than 400. Until now, it has not been possible to estimate when the jars were first placed on the landscape or from where the stone was sourced. Geochronological analysis using the age of detrital zircons demonstrates a likely quarry source for one of the largest megalithic jar sites. Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating suggests the jars were positioned at the sites potentially as early as the late second millennium BC. Radiocarbon dating of skeletal remains and charcoal s les places mortuary activity around the jars from the 9-13th century AD, suggesting the sites have maintained ritual significance from the period of their initial placement until historic times.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-12-2010
DOI: 10.1002/OA.1234
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2013
DOI: 10.1016/J.IJPP.2013.01.003
Abstract: The dental health of two Cambodian Iron Age (500 BC to 500 AD) communities is interpreted through an analysis of advanced wear, caries, periapical lesions, and antemortem tooth loss (AMTL). The two communities, Phum Snay and Phum Sophy, just 40km apart, are temporally situated at a time of significant socio-political change prior to the establishment of Angkorian state rule. Dental pathology frequencies are compared between the two communities and with other prehistoric sites throughout Southeast Asia to determine whether dental health was affected by socio-political changes and the intensification of rice agriculture that also occurred at this time. The people of Snay and Sophy, despite their proximity, were found to exhibit significant differences in dental health. When sub ided by age and sex, Sophy older age class teeth had significantly more advanced wear, and older females had more periapical lesions, while the Phum Snay older age dentitions had significantly more AMTL. Caries rates were similar between the s les. When compared in the broader context of the Iron Age in prehistoric Southeast Asia, both Phum Snay and Phum Sophy suggest a trend of declining dental health during the period prior to the rise of the Angkorian state.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date: 2001
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-04-2023
DOI: 10.1002/AJPA.24738
Abstract: We test the hypothesis that the condition(s) leading to the development of cribra orbitalia at Con Co Ngua, an early seventh millennium sedentary foraging community in Vietnam, effectively reduced the resilience of the population to subsequent health/disease impacts. An assessment of both the implications and potential etiology of cribra orbitalia in this specific population is carried out. The effective s le included 141 adults aged ≥15 years (53 females, 71 males, and 17 unknown sex) and 15 pre‐adults aged ≤14 years. Cribra orbitalia was identified by way of cortical bone porosity of the orbital roof initiated within the diplöic space, rather than initiated subperiosteally. The approach is also robust to the misidentification of various pseudo‐lesions. Resultant data was analyzed using Kaplan–Meier survival analysis. Median survival is higher in adults aged ≥15 years without cribra orbitalia than those with this lesion. For the pre‐adult cohort, the opposite pattern is seen where median survival is higher in those with cribra orbitalia than those without. Adults displayed increased frailty and pre‐adults increased resilience with respect to cribra orbitalia. The differential diagnosis for a survival analysis of adults and pre‐adults with and without cribra orbitalia included iron deficiency anemia and B12/folate deficiency, parasitism (including hydatid disease and malaria) in addition to thalassemia. The most parsimonious explanation for observed results is for both thalassemia and malaria being the chief etiological agents, while appreciating these conditions interact with, and can cause, other forms such as hematinic deficiency anemias.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 20-04-2006
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-07-2010
DOI: 10.1002/GEA.20321
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-02-2019
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-018-35426-Z
Abstract: This cranio-morphometric study emphasizes a “two-layer model” for eastern Eurasian anatomically modern human (AMH) populations, based on large datasets of 89 population s les including findings directly from ancient archaeological contexts. Results suggest that an initial “first layer” of AMH had related closely to ancestral Andaman, Australian, Papuan, and Jomon groups who likely entered this region via the Southeast Asian landmass, prior to 65–50 kya. A later “second layer” shared strong cranial affinities with Siberians, implying a Northeast Asian source, evidenced by 9 kya in central China and then followed by expansions of descendant groups into Southeast Asia after 4 kya. These two populations shared limited initial exchange, and the second layer grew at a faster rate and in greater numbers, linked with contexts of farming that may have supported increased population densities. Clear dichotomization between the two layers implies a temporally deep ergence of distinct migration routes for AMH through both southern and northern Eurasia.
Publisher: University of Washington Libraries
Date: 30-11-2015
Abstract: Excavations were undertaken at the village ( em hum) /em of Sophy in Banteay Meanchey Province, north-west Cambodia over two field seasons in two separate areas in 2009 and 2010. The remains of twenty in iduals were found in 14 mortuary contexts with in iduals interred with a range of burial goods including ceramic vessels, stone and glass beads, iron and bronze artefacts and faunal remains. The site dates to the Iron Age (dates spanning the period c. 87-526 AD) and is surrounded by the ruins of later, Pre-Angkorian temples and their associated ponds. Excavation and research has revealed Sophy to be a prehistoric agricultural village in which the inhabitants exploited a wide-range of habitats and engaged in inter-regional exchange. The results of these investigations are presented here incorporating a description of the excavation, preliminary discussion of the material assemblage and demographic data obtained from the mortuary contexts.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-2019
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774319000192
Abstract: The Iron Age of Mainland Southeast Asia began in the fifth century bc and lasted for about a millennium. In coastal regions, the development of trade along the Maritime Silk Road led to the growth of port cities. In the interior, a fall in monsoon rains particularly affected the Mun River valley. This coincided with the construction of moats/reservoirs round Iron Age settlements from which water was channelled into wet rice fields, the production of iron ploughshares and sickles, population growth, burgeoning exchange and increased conflict. We explore the social impact of this agricultural revolution through applying statistical analyses to mortuary s les dating before and after the development of wet rice farming. These suggest that there was a swift formation of social elites represented by the wealth of mortuary offerings, followed by a decline. Two associated changes are identified. The first involved burying the dead in residential houses the second considers the impact of an increasingly aquatic environment on health by examining demographic trends involving a doubling of infant mortality that concentrated on neonates. A comparison between this sequence and that seen in coastal ports suggests two interconnected instances of rapid pathways to social change responding to different social and environmental stressors.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Date: 31-10-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1002/OA.815
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2001
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9969(01)00051-6
Abstract: The absence of lateral incisors is generally a reflection of agenesis or hypodontia, with a significant genetic basis and possibly environmental influence on the phenotypic expression. A human skeletal s le from the Iron Age cemetery of Noen U-Loke in Thailand has a very high prevalence at 79% of adults (30/38) with at least one incisor missing in either maxilla or mandible. If the cause of this high rate is genetic, it may be indicative of homogeneity, and, therefore, endogamy and probably isolation, of the population represented. Supporting agenesis as the explanation for this is the lack of space between the central incisors and canines in more than half the cases. An alternative explanation is that the teeth may have been lost during life through pathology or deliberate removal (ablation). There is no evidence in the form of remodelled lesions for pathological loss of the teeth. Although there were no significant differences between males and females in the numbers of teeth missing, there were significant differences in the patterns of loss, with males having more missing teeth on the right and females more on the left. No evidence was found in the clinical literature of agenesis involving side preference by sex, so this may indicate deliberate removal of the teeth. Males were also more likely than females to have no space for the missing teeth. Ablation of teeth has been recorded in other prehistoric South-East Asian populations but in these cases the evidence was much clearer. Agenesis seems to offer the most likely explanation for the missing teeth at Noen U-Loke and if so, indicates that a small, isolated population may develop a very high rate of hypodontia, with a side preference dependent on sex.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 07-06-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Publisher: Antiquity Publications
Date: 08-2019
Publisher: PERSEE Program
Date: 2001
Abstract: Nous présentons ici, avant l'étude définitive, les tout premiers résultats de la fouille d'une nécropole de l'âge du fer dans le centre du Myanmar. Ces recherches de terrain conduites en 2001 par une équipe birmano-française posent les premiers jalons d'une étude des périodes récentes de la Préhistoire dans la région.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-11-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-03-2013
DOI: 10.1002/OA.1245
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 28-04-2021
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 10-03-2018
DOI: 10.1101/279646
Abstract: Southeast Asia is home to rich human genetic and linguistic ersity, but the details of past population movements in the region are not well known. Here, we report genome-wide ancient DNA data from thirteen Southeast Asian in iduals spanning from the Neolithic period through the Iron Age (4100–1700 years ago). Early agriculturalists from Man Bac in Vietnam possessed a mixture of East Asian (southern Chinese farmer) and deeply erged eastern Eurasian (hunter-gatherer) ancestry characteristic of Austroasiatic speakers, with similar ancestry as far south as Indonesia providing evidence for an expansive initial spread of Austroasiatic languages. In a striking parallel with Europe, later sites from across the region show closer connections to present-day majority groups, reflecting a second major influx of migrants by the time of the Bronze Age.
Publisher: Anthropological Society of Nippon
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1537/ASE.070405
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-04-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S41826-023-00067-3
Abstract: In 2020 a Lao/Australian archaeological research team revisited one of the largest megalithic jar sites in Laos, Site 1, and undertook excavations in an effort to more fully understand the ritual practice at the site. This paper reviews previous research undertaken at the site and describes the recent excavation which revealed evidence of secondary burial practice dating to the 8th to thirteenth centuries. The research confirms the use of Site 1 as a burial site where multiple in iduals were interred in secondary burials in shared mortuary contexts.
Publisher: Anthropological Society of Nippon
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1537/ASE.100511
Publisher: Anthropological Society of Nippon
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1537/ASE.211219
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 06-2019
DOI: 10.1086/703376
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Date: 25-05-2020
DOI: 10.5744/BI.2020.1000
Abstract: Skeletal evidence of two probable cases of treponematosis, caused by infection with the bacterium Treponema pallidum, from the northern Vietnamese early Neolithic site of Man Bac (1906–1523 cal B.C.) is described. The presence of nodes of subperiosteal new bone directly associated with superficial focal cavitations in a young adult male and a seven-year- old child are strongly diagnostic for treponemal disease. Climatic and epidemiological contexts suggest yaws (Treponema pallidum pertenue) as the most likely causative treponeme. This evidence is the oldest discovered in the Asia-Pacific region and is the first well-established pre-Columbian ex le in this region in terms of diagnosis and secure dating. The coastal ecology, sedentary settlement, and high fertility at the site of Man Bac all provided a biosocial context conducive to the spread of treponemal disease among inhabitants of the site. Co-morbidity with scurvy in both in iduals demonstrates that malnutrition during the agricultural transition may have exacerbated the expression of treponematosis in this community. Man Bac is a site of great regional importance owing to its role during the Neolithic transition of Mainland Southeast Asia. During this transition, approximately 4,000 years ago, farmers migrating from southern China into Southeast Asia influenced a number of changes in subsistence and demography and potentially introduced new infectious diseases such as treponematosis to indigenous forager communities. The findings presented here may encourage reevaluation of existing Southeast Asian skeletal s les and demonstrate the importance of using weighted diagnostic criteria for future reporting of treponematosis cases. Hai trường hợp nhiều khả năng mắc bệnh ghẻ cóc do nhiễm vi khuẩn Treponema pallidum, thuộc di chỉ Mán Bạc sơ kì đá mới Việt Nam (cal 1906–1523 B.C.) được mô tả trên bằng chứng di cốt. Sự có mặt của các hạt xương mới dưới màng xương trực tiếp liên quan đến các lỗ ổ bề mặt ở một nam trẻ tuổi trưởng thành và một trẻ em 7 tuổi là chẩn đoán nhiều khả năng cho bệnh này. Bối cảnh khí hậu và dịch tễ học cho thấy bệnh ghẻ cóc do nhiễm xoắn khuẩn Treponema pallidum pertenue là nguyên nhân phổ biến nhất. Bằng chứng trên được phát hiện muộn nhất ở khu vực Châu Á-Thái Bình Dương và là một ví dụ điển hình đầu tiên giai đoạn tiền Columbia trong khu vực này dựa vào chẩn đoán và định niên đại chính xác. Sinh thái biển, lối sống ít di động, và tỷ lệ sinh sản cao ở di chỉ Mán Bạc, tất cả đã tạo ra sự tương tác giữa các yếu tố sinh học và xã hội thuận lợi cho việc lây lan bệnh ghẻ cóc giữa các cư dân thuộc di chỉ này. Cùng với đó là sự mắc bệnh thiếu vitamin C (scurvy) ở cả hai cá thể trên chỉ ra rằng sự suy dinh dưỡng trong suốt quá trình chuyển tiếp nông nghiệp có thể trầm trọng hơn và biểu hiện bệnh ghẻ cóc ở cộng đồng này. Mán Bạc là một di chỉ vùng quan trọng bởi vì nó nằm trong ranh giới giai đoạn chuyển tiếp Đá Mới của Đông Nam Á lục địa. Trong suốt bước chuyển này, khoảng 4000 năm cách đây, các cư dân nông nghiệp di cư từ miền nam Trung Quốc vào Đông Nam Á đã ảnh hưởng nhiều thay đổi trong phương thức sinh kế, dân số, và mang theo bệnh nhiễm trùng mới tiềm ẩn như là bệnh ghẻ cóc vào các cộng đồng nông nghiệp bản địa . Các phát hiện trình bày trên đây hi vọng sẽ là khởi đầu đánh giá lại về sự tồn tại các di cốt Đông Nam Á và minh họa tầm quan trọng của việc sử dụng tiêu chí chẩn đoán tin cậy về các trường hợp bệnh ghẻ cóc cho nghiên cứu tiếp theo.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-01-2023
DOI: 10.1002/AJPA.24698
Abstract: Scurvy in non‐adults was assessed at the Pre‐Neolithic site of Con Co Ngua and the Neolithic site of Man Bac in northern Vietnam to investigate nutritional stress during the agricultural transition in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA). One hundred and four human skeletons under the age of 20 years old were assessed. Lesions were recorded macroscopically and radiographically. Differential diagnosis using prior established paleopathological diagnostic criteria for scurvy was conducted. There was no clear evidence for scurvy at Con Co Ngua and a high burden of scurvy was present at Man Bac ( % diagnosed with probable scurvy). Scurvy levels were high across all non‐adult ages at Man Bac indicating significant burden throughout childhood and adolescence. No scurvy at Con Co Ngua is consistent with widely available food sources at the peak of the Holocene thermal maximum. High levels of scurvy at Man Bac corresponds with decreased dietary ersity, high pathogen load, and increased population stress with the transition to agriculture around the time of the 4.2 ka desertification event. This is the first systematic population‐level non‐adult investigation of specific nutritional disease in MSEA and demonstrates an increase in nutritional stress during the Neolithic transition in northern Vietnam. Subperiosteal new bone deposits can be due to normal growth in infants and young children, therefore, identification of scurvy in children under the age of 4 years needs to be considered critically. Further work in diagnosing specific nutritional disease in other non‐adult cohorts throughout MSEA is required.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-11-2022
DOI: 10.1002/AJPA.24435
Abstract: Con Co Ngua is a complex, sedentary forager site from northern Vietnam dating to the early seventh millennium BP. Prior research identified a calcified Echinococcus granulosis cyst, which causes hydatid disease. Osteolytic lesions consistent with hydatid disease were also present in this in idual and others. Hydatid disease is observed in high frequencies in pastoralists, and its presence in a hunter‐gatherer community raises questions regarding human‐animal interaction prior to farming. The objective of this article is to identify and describe the epidemiology of hydatid disease in the human skeletal assemblage at Con Co Ngua. One hundred and fifty‐five in iduals were macroscopically assessed for lesions. Of these, eight in iduals were radiographed. Hydatid disease was diagnosed using a new threshold criteria protocol derived from clinical literature, which prioritizes lesions specific to the parasite. Twenty‐two in iduals (14.2%) presented with osteolytic lesions consistent with hydatid disease, affecting the distal humerus, proximal femur and forearm, and pelvis. Seven in iduals radiographed (4.5%) had multilocular cystic lesions strongly diagnostic for hydatid disease. All probable cases had lesions of the distal humerus. The remaining lesions were macroscopically identical to those radiographed and were considered possible cases. While hydatid disease has previously been found in pre‐agricultural communities, the high prevalence at Con Co Ngua is non‐incidental. We propose that the presence of wild canids and management of wild buffalo and deer increased the risk of disease transmission. These findings further reveal subsistence complexity among hunter‐gatherers living millennia prior to the adoption of farming in Southeast Asia.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Date: 21-05-2020
DOI: 10.5744/BI.2019.1017
Abstract: The rise of social inequality is a key development in human history and is linked to deteriorating health. These associated health impacts are poorly understood for Iron Age (420 B.C.–A.D. 500) northeast Thailand. To clarify this issue we investigate whether social status differences influence non-specific stress at the site of Non Ban Jak (A.D. 300–800), which comprises two separate burial mounds. These mounds are thought to represent the neighborhoods of two distinct social groups at the site. Quantitative analyses were used to explore differences in grave goods among the adults of Non Ban Jak (N = 47). Long bone lengths, ages at death, and linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) were examined to explore differences in non-specific stress on the basis of age, sex, burial mound, and mortuary phase. Results demonstrated that older adults of both sexes, males of all ages, and west mound in iduals received greater grave good quantities and may therefore have been of higher social status. West mound in iduals were taller and had a lower prevalence of LEH compared to those from the east mound. Although female LEH prevalence and mortality were reduced relative to males, decreasing stature over time and high neonatal mortality indicated greater female stress. Lower-status in iduals may therefore have suffered increased stress relative to those of higher status. Artifactual and epigraphic evidence supports the suggestion of sex- and class-based status differences at Non Ban Jak, legitimized and perpetuated through the adoption of residential burial and new religious ideologies. การปรากฎขึ้นของความไม่เท่าเทียมทางสังคมเป็นพัฒนาการสำคัญอย่างหนึ่งในประวัติศาสตร์มนุษยชาติและเชื่อมโยงกับสุขภาพที่เสื่อมลง ความรู้ความเข้าใจเกี่ยวกับสุขภาวะที่เกี่ยวเนื่องกับความไม่เท่าเทียมทางสังคมในสมัยเหล็ก (ประมาณ ๒,๔๐๐ – ๑,๕๐๐ ปีมาแล้ว) ในภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือนี้ยังมีน้อย ดังนั้น เพื่อสร้างความเข้าใจให้ชัดเจนในเรื่องนี้ เราจึงได้ศึกษาตรวจสอบว่าความแตกต่างด้านสถานะทางสังคมมีอิทธิพลต่อความตึงเครียดหรือไม่ ทั้งนี้ เราใช้หลักฐานทางโบราณคดีจากแหล่งโบราณคดีโนนบ้านจาก (กำหนดอายุระหว่าง ๒,๓๐๐ – ๑,๒๐๐ ปีมาแล้ว) ซึ่งมีเนินหลุมฝังศพ ๒ เนิน เราเชื่อว่าเนินดินหลุมฝังศพทั้งสองเนินนี้เป็นแหล่งฝังศพของกลุ่มคน ๒ กลุ่มที่เป็นเพื่อนบ้านกันหรือมีความใกล้ชิดทางสังคม เราใช้วิธีการวิเคราะห์เชิงปริมาณในการศึกษาตรวจสอบความแตกต่างของวัตถุอุทิศที่พบร่วมกับหลุมฝังศพของคนในวัยที่เป็นผู้ใหญ่ นอกจากนี้ เรายังวิเคราะห์ความยาวของกระดูกแขน-ขา อายุเมื่อตาย และการเสื่อมผุของเคลือบฟัน เพื่อตรวจสอบระดับความแตกต่างของความตึงเครียดตามเพศ อายุ/วัย กลุ่มสังคม และช่วงเวลา ผลการศึกษาพบว่าผู้ใหญ่วัยสูงอายุทั้งเพศหญิงและชาย ผู้ชายทุกวัย และกลุ่มคนจากเนินฝังศพด้านตะวันตกมีจำนวนวัตถุอุทิศมากกว่ากลุ่มคนจากเนินฝังศพทางตะวันออก และดังนั้นคนที่ถูกฝังในเนินดินฝังสพทางตะวันตกอาจจะมีสถานภาพสูงกว่าคนที่ถูกฝังในเนินดินหลุมฝังศพทางตะวันออก คนที่ถูกฝังในเนินดินหลุมฝังศพทางตะวันตกมีร่างกายที่สูงกว่าและมีการเสื่อมผุของเคลือบฟันน้อยกว่าคนที่ฝังที่เนินดินทางตะวันออก และแม้ว่าการเสื่อมผุของเคลือบฟันและอัตราการเสียชีวิตของผู้หญิงลดลงเมื่อเปรียบเทียบกับผู้ชาย แต่ผู้หญิงก็มีส่วนสูงเฉลี่ยลดลง และมีอัตราการเสียชีวิตของทารกในครรภ์สูงขึ้นตามช่วงเวลาซึ่งอาจจะแสดงว่าผู้หญิงมีชีวิตความตึงเครียด และคนที่มีสถานภาพทางสังคมต่ำก็มีความตึงเครียดมากกว่าคนที่มีสภาพทางสังคมที่สูงด้วย หลักฐานประเภทโบราณวัตถุและจารึกโบราณสนับสนุนว่าความแตกต่างทางสถานภาพทางสังคมและเพศที่แหล่งโบราณคดีโนนบ้านจากเกิดขึ้นและดำรงอยู่ดังจะสะท้อนให้เห็นจากการฝังศพในที่อยู่อาศัยและการเข้ามาของระบบความเชื่อทางศาสนาอันใหม่
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Date: 07-2022
DOI: 10.5744/BI.2021.0022
Abstract: A detailed study of a young adult male burial from Bronze Age Thailand has revealed a series of significant pathological lesions, which, when contextualized in time and place, allow for insights not only into the life of this young man but also his community. Burial 671, represented by a near complete, well-preserved skeleton and a range of grave goods, was dated to 900–700 B.C. from the northeastern Thailand site of Ban Non Wat. Using the Bioarchaeology of Care Model, a detailed analysis of the lower limb pathological lesions, including a comprehensive review of relevant paleopathological and clinical literature, was undertaken. It is suggested this young man had congenital, bilateral clubfoot, as well as a recent, partially healed femoral midshaft fracture. These pathologies would have impacted his mobility and daily activities, but his skeleton indicates that he developed methods to adjust. Combining this assessment with an evaluation of his socio-environmental context, it is evident that this man, though he died young, was an integrated member of his community. การศึกษาหลักฐานโครงกระดูกชายหนุ่ม สมัยสำริดในประเทศไทย พบหลักฐานรอยโรคพยาธิสภาพโบราณที่สำคัญ เมื่อพิจารณาถึงบริบทด้านเวลาและสถานที่ทำให้เกิดความเข้าใจเพิ่มขึ้นเกี่ยวกับวิถีชีวิตในอดีตทั้งของบุคคลและชุมชน กรณีศึกษาหลุมฝังพหมายเลข 671 ที่พบโครงกระดูกสภาพเกือบสมบูรณ์ร่วมกับวัตถุอุทิศหลากหลายประเภทจากแหล่งโบราณคดีบ้านโนนวัด ภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือของไทย สมัยสำริด อายุประมาณ 2,900-2,700 ปีมาแล้ว ผลการวิเคราะห์รอยโรคที่พบบริเวณขา เปรียบเทียบกับรายงานผลการศึกษาพยาธิสภาพโบราณและการศึกษาทางคลีนิค ตามกรอบคิดเรื่องการดูแลในงานชีวโบราณคดี พบว่าชายหนุ่มเป็นโรคเท้าปุก หรือมีลักษณะเท้าผิดรูปทั้งสองข้างมาโดยกำเนิด มีรอยโรคที่แสดงถึงการแตกหักของกระดูกต้นขาที่พึ่งหายเป็นปกติ รอยโรคเหล่านี้น่าจะส่งผลกระทบต่อการเคลื่อนไหวและการทำกิจกรรมต่าง ๆ ในชีวิตประจำวัน แต่หลักฐานอื่นที่ปรากฏบนโครงกระดูกก็แสดงถึงพัฒนาการปรับตัวกับโรคดังกล่าวได้ในระดับหนึ่ง ชายหนุ่มคนนี้แม้ปรากฏหลักฐานว่าเสียชีวิตในวัยหนุ่ม แต่ก็ถือเป็นสมาชิกคนหนึ่งของชุมชนเมื่อประเมินร่วมในบริบททางสังคมและสิ่งแวดล้อม
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2020
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 04-09-2019
Publisher: Anthropological Society of Nippon
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1537/ASE.081114
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2003
DOI: 10.1002/OA.664
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 06-07-2018
Abstract: The past movements and peopling of Southeast Asia have been poorly represented in ancient DNA studies (see the Perspective by Bellwood). Lipson et al. generated sequences from people inhabiting Southeast Asia from about 1700 to 4100 years ago. Screening of more than a hundred in iduals from five sites yielded ancient DNA from 18 in iduals. Comparisons with present-day populations suggest two waves of mixing between resident populations. The first mix was between local hunter-gatherers and incoming farmers associated with the Neolithic spreading from South China. A second event resulted in an additional pulse of genetic material from China to Southeast Asia associated with a Bronze Age migration. McColl et al. sequenced 26 ancient genomes from Southeast Asia and Japan spanning from the late Neolithic to the Iron Age. They found that present-day populations are the result of mixing among four ancient populations, including multiple waves of genetic material from more northern East Asian populations. Science , this issue p. 92 , p. 88 see also p. 31
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