Dra Abu El Naga TT 14 – Midan 05: Preliminary Report on the Anthropological Analysis of the Human Skeletal Remains - by Barbara Lippi

TT 14 04 G (Tunnel)

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This skeleton was almost complete, including the skull almost all limb bones (some hand and foot bones were misising) and the pelvis. Overall preservation of the remains was good.
Age determination For this subject we could estimate an age at death observing several features, such as the stage of epiphyseal fusion, the degree of cranial sutures synostosis, the pubic symphysis and the auricular surface morphology that gave an overall age at death of 50+ years.
Sex determination Following the method proposed by Buikstra and Ubelaker (1994) we diagnosed a female sex according to the morphology of some cranial and pelvic features (weak facial and cranial traits: less prominent brow-ridge and nuchal crest, small mastoid process and rounded chin in the skull, ventral arc, subpubic concavity and preauricular sulcus in the pelvis).
The post-cranial skeleton was fairly gracile and we noticed a marked bilateral asymmetry in the upper limbs that indicate that the subject was involved in a heavy physical activity that focused on the right side. Stature was estimated from the humeral length and gave a mean value 159,6 cm.
Pathology We recorded the presence of several caries on the lower molars, both on the occlusal surfaces and on the medial surfaces of the crowns and traces of osteoarthritis on the shoulder, hip and knee joints, most probably due to old age.

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