Á. Rubio Salvador , L.P. Sánchez-Barba , J. Úbeda-Portugués , A. Martín-Prats , J. Vélez , J. Irurita , I. Alemán
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Abstract
Objective
To investigate the presence of trepanations in an early Modern Age, skeletal collection documented in medical treatises but infrequently reported in osteological collections.
Materials
Analyses were conducted on 387 non-adult crania from the ossuary in the church of the Assumption of Valdepeñas (16th - 18th C.), Ciudad Real, Spain.
Methods
All complete or semi-complete crania of non-adults (aged 3–20 years) were macroscopically examined.
Results
Trepanation was detected in two adolescents aged 14 and 20 years; no evidence of their survival was observed.
Conclusions
These findings suggest that trepanation was carried out in rural areas as Valdepeñas in the 16th-18th centuries, where the selection of instruments indicates knowledge of contemporaneous medical treatises.
Significance
The present study provides new data on trepanation and how it was performed in adolescents during this period.
Limitations
Understanding the motive for these interventions is highly challenging in the absence of bone lesions, and their occurrence is likely underestimated due to the scant research in skeletal remains from the early Modern Age.
Suggestions for future research
Further palaeopathological analyses of osteological collections from this period will provide more information about how this surgical technique was perfected.
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.
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