HEALTH CONDITIONS BETWEEN THE MUISCA-TIBANICA SOCIETY: BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF PHENOMENA IN POROUS SKULL.

Summary

The doctoral research I drive seeks to understand whether there is relationship between nutrition and the appearance of porosity in the skull within the Late Muisca society Tibanica located in Soacha Colombia. From the macroscopic, histological and radiological analysis is to perform a differential diagnosis to understand the true involvement anemic trait. According to the etiology presented for porous phenomena, its causes is the high consumption of maize, which inhibits the absorption of iron, resulting in iron deficiency anemia; if true, a high maize consumption among the non elite group of Tibanica, reveal high frequencies of porotic hyperostosis and cribra orbitalia. The designed to answer questions about the relationship feeding disease bioarchaeological analyzes have not been carried out to the country with a large sample of Late Muisca period, which is an opportunity to conduct research that attempts to approach the phenomena porous in the skull from a not only paleopathologica but biocultural perspective.

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• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
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