Buzon Michele R, Judd Margaret A
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN 47907-2059, USA.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008 May;136(1):93-9. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.20781.
This analysis examines heterogeneity in risks by assessing the health status of individuals in two distinct burial contexts from the Nubian site of Kerma: sacrificial (n = 100) and nonsacrificial (n = 190) burial areas dated to the classic Kerma period ( approximately 1750-1500 BC). Indicators of physiological stress that were examined include cribra orbitalia, dental enamel hypoplasia, tibial osteoperiostitis, and femur length. The analysis presented here shows that the people interred in the sacrificial and nonsacrificial burial contexts at Kerma in Upper Nubia had similar health profiles that were comparable with other contemporaneous samples from the region. If sacrificial individuals did not experience the same risk of death as nonsacrificial individuals, it was not evident in the frequencies of nonspecific stress indicators. However, this differential risk of death may be blurred by our inability to examine nonadults for childhood disease. This research demonstrates the complexities involved in understanding the multiple factors that result in heterogeneity in skeletal samples.
本分析通过评估来自凯尔玛努比亚遗址两个不同墓葬环境中个体的健康状况，来研究风险的异质性：祭祀区（n = 100）和非祭祀区（n = 190），其年代可追溯到凯尔玛经典时期（约公元前1750 - 1500年）。所研究的生理压力指标包括眶筛孔、牙釉质发育不全、胫骨骨膜炎和股骨长度。此处呈现的分析表明，在上努比亚凯尔玛的祭祀和非祭祀墓葬环境中埋葬的人群具有相似的健康状况，这与该地区其他同期样本相当。如果祭祀个体与非祭祀个体没有经历相同的死亡风险，那么在非特异性压力指标的频率中并不明显。然而，由于我们无法检查非成年人是否患有儿童疾病，这种死亡风险差异可能会被模糊。这项研究表明，在理解导致骨骼样本异质性的多种因素时存在复杂性。
