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expressedbyrealandnotintegervalues
appearedastheresultoftakingintoaccount
intheanalysiscasesinwhichtheagedeter-
minationwaslesspreciseandthuscovered
morethanonecategoryatatime.Inviewof
theirbiologicalcharacter,therangesof
particulargroupsgiveninyearsofagehave
beensuppliedhereinparenthesesmerelyfor
generalorientationpurposes.
Basicpaleopathologicalanalysis7cover-
ed65skeletonsofallthreephasesofthe
burialground(including26male,24
femaleand15indeterminate).Itdemon-
strated(Table4andChart3)that16in-
dividualssufferedfromdegenerativespinal
changes.Ofthese,fivewerelight,twoof
averageseverityandnineverystrongly
articulated.Jointchangeswerealsoin-
cludedinthisgroup.Bothkindsofchange
wereobservedmorefrequentlyinmen.
Consideringtherelativegenderbalance
observedinthematerial,itappearsjus-
tifiedtopresumethatmenintheexam-
inedsociety,morethanwomen,tookup
activitiesthatburdenedtheirjointsand
spinalcolumn.8)
Porotichyperostosischangescausedby
irondeficiency(cribraorbitaliaandothers)
wereobservedinfour(36.36%)ofthetotal
numberof11juvenileindividuals(which
makesfor73.33%ofall15oftheexam-
inedindividualswhosegendercouldbede-
termined)andinnine(34.62%)ofthemen
andfive(20.83%)ofthewomen.
Chart2.AgeatdeathofindividualsburiedintheUpperNecropolis.
?-indeterminate,
Σ
-sum
7
Foranexcellentguidebookinthisrespect,cf.A.C.Aufderheide,C.Rodriguez-Martin,TheCambridgeEncyclopedia
ofHumanPaleopathology(Cambridge1998).
8
Morestudiesarenecessarytoconfirmorrejectthesepreliminaryconclusions.
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