Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Enthesiopathien bei Frühund Mittelholozänen Menschlichen Skelettresten aus Wadi Shaw und Burg et-Tuyur (Sudan): Ein Humanökologischer Interpretationsversuch
AU  - Binder M
AU  - Uerpmann A
AU  - Henke W
Y1  - 2005
VL  - 43
IS  - 2-3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 283
EP  - 293
KW  - Sahara
KW  - Wadi Shaw
KW  - Activity-related skeletal modifications
KW  - Enthesopathies
KW  - Paleopathology
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N2  - Seven prehistoric skeletons from Wadi Shaw in Eastern Sahara (NW-Sudan) were re-examined for occupational markers and enthesopathies as well as for degenerative pathologies. Of the six adults and one infant, one dates to the Mesolithic, two to the Neolithic and four to the protohistoric period. The reappraisal of the six adult individuals revealed a high frequency of skeletal modifications linked to daily activities. The authors suggest habitual activities such as extensive walking on rough terrain, hunting or fighting, load carrying and squatting as the normal form of resting. The observations are consistent with human ecology as reconstructed from paleo-environmental and archaeological findings from the Early and Middle Holocene of the Wadi Shaw area.
ER  -