目的:评估表明存在病的病理性病变,并将诊断纳入生物考古学和历史背景。
方法:在休韦尔顿的一次救援挖掘中发现的3岁±12个月大儿童的遗骸,纽约
方法:我们对个体进行了宏观检查,并按照古病理学文献中确定的方案进行了鉴别诊断。
结果:Bony在轨道上的变化,下颌骨,肋骨,锁骨,左肩胛骨,胡梅里,半径,尺骨,股骨,胫骨,腓骨(例如,孔隙度,骨干增厚,燃烧,鞠躬),并记录牙齿损伤。
结论:我们证明了孩子在爬行和学会走路时可能出现维生素D缺乏症。
结论:这个例子为生物考古学文献提供了重要的贡献,由于在北美农村地区使用更新的诊断标准记录了很少的病病例,并且对19世纪纽约州北部早期定居者的健康和生活方式知之甚少。
结论:无法确定该儿童的准确病因并将其与人群中的其他人进行比较。
UNASSIGNED:按照当前的生物考古学标准,检查(并重新评估)其他北美和南美骨骼组合是否存在维生素D缺乏病的迹象。
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate pathological lesions suggesting the presence of rickets and to place the diagnosis into bioarchaeological and historical context.
METHODS: The remains of a 3-year ± 12-month-old child discovered during a rescue excavation in Heuvelton, New York.
METHODS: We examined the individual macroscopically and conducted a differential diagnosis following established protocols in the palaeopathological literature.
RESULTS: Bony change on the orbits, mandible, ribs, clavicles, left scapula, humerii, radii, ulnae, femora, tibiae, fibulae (e.g., porosity, diaphyseal thickening, flaring, bowing), and dental lesions were recorded.
CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate that the child likely presented with vitamin D deficiency rickets during crawling and as they learned to walk.
CONCLUSIONS: This example offers an important contribution to the bioarchaeological literature, as few cases of rickets have been recorded in rural North America using updated diagnostic criteria and little is known of the health and lifeways of early settlers in 19th-century upstate New York.
CONCLUSIONS: It is not possible to ascertain the precise aetiology of this child\'s rachitic state and to compare this individual with others in the population.
UNASSIGNED: Examination (and re-assessment) of other North and South American skeletal assemblages for signs of vitamin D deficiency rickets following current bioarchaeological standards.