A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave, GreeceThis work offers a bioarchaeological study of the Late and Final Neolithic Age site of Alepotrypa Cave, one of the richest Neolithic sites in Greece. It is of special importance because it belongs to the later phases of the Neolithic, when transformations were fully developed, and it contains both habitation debris and an uncommon variety of mortuary loci. Four main aspects of analysis are undertaken. First, the palaeodemographic and palaeopathological profile of the Neolithic population is reconstructed. The present sample of 161 individuals provides a robust data base from which to determine the demographic and pathological characteristics of the population, the stresses that it was subjected to, and the interaction between culture, health, and environment. Second, the various burial practices represented at Alepotrypa Cave are examined, and their possible meaning explored. Third, comparative stable isotope evidence offers information on diet. Finally, the results of all these analyses are integrated. |
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT | 10 |
COMPARATIVE BACKGROUND MATERIALS | 22 |
RESULTS | 33 |
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1st metatarsal 2nd metacarpal 3rd metacarpal 4th metatarsal A/Oot accetabulum acromion Ad-Subad agriculture Alepotrypa Cave Alepotrypa population anemia Angel apophyses archaeological arthritis Bogucki bone fragments Buikstra calcaneus carbon caries clavicle collagen condyle cranial cribra orbitalia cultural cupped wear dental diaphysis diet dietary enamel hypoplasias enthesopathy epiphysis Europe femur fibula Figure fracture fragment Adult frags Franchthi frontal fused 90 Greece hand phalanx whole human humerus ilium individuals infection ischium Kephala Larsen long bone mandible maxilla Mesolithic metatarsal L whole middle hand phalanx mortuary practices Neolithic sites Norr nutritional occipital fragment Ossuary osteoarthritis osteological Papathanassopoulos parietal fragment pathological conditions patterns phalanx whole 100 Physical Anthropology pieces porotic hyperostosis prehistoric proximal radius rib fragments sample scapula secondary burials skeletal social stable isotope analysis strong muscle insertions Subadult supraorbital notch temporal thoracic vertebra tibia ulna vertebra fragments w/out whole 98 whole not fused zygoma Δ/Οστ ཎྜ