A historical case of Eagle’s syndrome from the Constantine-Helena Church, Niğde, Türkiye

IF 1.3 3区地球科学 Q3 PALEONTOLOGY International Journal of Paleopathology Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI:10.1016/j.ijpp.2025.02.001

Gülfem Uysal , Benjamin Irvine , Kameray Özdemir

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Abstract

Objective

To evaluate a case of elongated styloid processes in an individual from a Byzantine burial.

Materials

One well preserved adult human skeleton dated to the 7th-9th centuries buried within the church of Constantine-Helena near Niğde in the Cappadocia region of Anatolia.

Methods

Macroscopic and metric analysis using a digital sliding calliper, enhanced and complemented by a Multi-Detector Computer Tomography scan of the cranium.

Results

Individual was estimated to be an old adult male. Total lengths of the left styloid process were 79.0 mm using a calliper and 78.7 mm based on computerised digital measurement. The right styloid process measured 73.0 mm using a calliper and 75.5 mm based on computerised digital measurement.

Conclusions

Bilateral elongation of the styloid processes and Eagle’s syndrome were confirmed based on the lengths of the styloid processes greater than the normal range. The most consistent aetiology of the condition in this instance is anatomic variance.

Significance

Recognising the presence of Eagle Syndrome in the past provides insight into population dynamics and potentially the evolution of this condition.

Limitations

Only a single individual was evaluated without aDNA analysis.

Suggestions for further research

Further analysis and review of skeletal populations, using standardised methods and modern imaging techniques, to identify this condition geographically and chronologically.

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International Journal of Paleopathology PALEONTOLOGY-PATHOLOGY

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2.90

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期刊介绍： Paleopathology is the study and application of methods and techniques for investigating diseases and related conditions from skeletal and soft tissue remains. The International Journal of Paleopathology (IJPP) will publish original and significant articles on human and animal (including hominids) disease, based upon the study of physical remains, including osseous, dental, and preserved soft tissues at a range of methodological levels, from direct observation to molecular, chemical, histological and radiographic analysis. Discussion of ways in which these methods can be applied to the reconstruction of health, disease and life histories in the past is central to the discipline, so the journal would also encourage papers covering interpretive and theoretical issues, and those that place the study of disease at the centre of a bioarchaeological or biocultural approach. Papers dealing with historical evidence relating to disease in the past (rather than history of medicine) will also be published. The journal will also accept significant studies that applied previously developed techniques to new materials, setting the research in the context of current debates on past human and animal health.