A Sample of Multiple Bone Fractures from the Cemetery in the Church of PisidiaAntiokheia (Isparta / Yalvaç) Byzantine Period

Year 2017, Issue: 33, 1 - 19, 30.06.2017

Nalan Damla Usta Yılmaz , Mehmet Özhanlı Tuçe Güngör

https://doi.org/10.1501/antro_0000000338

Cited By: 2

Abstract

In the 2015 season of the excavations in Pisidia Antiokheia (Yalvaç/Isparta) skeleton remains were found in the cemetery in the main nef of the Aedilicus chuch.As an anthropological analysis, it has been estimated that the skeletal remains belong to a man and also he was 56 years old. It has been found to have healed fractures in his postcranial bones. It has been applied to radiographic analyzes for these fracture traces. The fracture traces are on the 9th, 10th and 11th of rib bones (costae), on the neck of the right femur, on the proximal epiphysis of the right tibia, and at two places in the diaphysis of the right humerus, and they have been defined as incomplete fractures. Their similar morphologies have indicated likely occurrencing with contemporary traumas. Their position on the right side of the body supports the possibility that the individual probably falls on his right side in his life. In particular, the fracture finding on the femoral neck supports the possibility that this knockdown occurs on the passenger animal

Keywords

Pisidia Antiokheia, Middle Byzantine, Palaeopathology, Trauma, Bone fractures

Pisidia-Antiokheia (Isparta-Yalvaç) Bizans Dönemi Kilise Mezarlığından Bir Çoklu Kemik Kırığı Örneği

Abstract

Pisidia Antiokheia (Yalvaç / Isparta) Antik Kenti’nde 2015 yılında yapılan kazılarda Aedilicus Kilisesi’nin ana nefinde yer alan mezarlardan iskelet kalıntıları ele geçmiştir. Antropolojik analizler sonucunda erkek ve 54 yaşlarında olduğu öngörülen bireyin, vücut kemiklerinde iyileşmiş kırık izlerine rastlandı. Kırık izler için radyografik analizlere başvuruldu. Sağ 9., 10. ve 11. costae’larda, sağ femur’un boyun kısmında, sağ tibia’nın proksimalinde ve sağ humerus’un gövdesinin iki yerinde bulunan izler, “ayrılmamış kırıklar” olarak tanımlandı. İyileşmiş kırık izlerinin benzer morfolojileri bunların eş zamanlı travmalarla oluştuğunu göstermektedir. Bunların vücudun sağ yanında konumlanması bireyin yaşamında muhtemelen sağ yanı üzerine düştüğü ve özellikle femur boynundaki kırık bulgusu bu düşmenin binek hayvanı üzerindeyken gerçekleştiği ihtimallerini desteklemektedir

Keywords

Pisidia Antiokheia, Orta Bizans, Paleopatoloji, Travma, Kemik kırıkları

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