Early-life stress in Transylvania : the use of macroscopic and isotopic analyses to examine how early life stress affected survival during periods of political transition
As we see today, and throughout history, continued unrest in a region can have a dramatic impact on the health of the conquered and conquering populations, and the subsequent generations. The aims of this study were to integrate isotopic data (showing diet and mobility) and palaeopathological (disease) analyses to understand the impact of aspects of life such as living conditions, economy and diet, and migration, in locals and non-locals, had on morbidity and mortality. The Iclod Necropolis has been associated with the Kingdom of the Gepids, one of many tribes vying for power in Transylvania during this post-Roman transition of the Migration Period. The BoÌgoÌz Church and FenyeÌd cemetery were occupied during the Arpadian expansion of the Hungarian Kingdom into Transylvania during the Middle Ages. Macroscopic skeletal analyses confirmed both populations had substantial evidence (>50%) of physiological and metabolic stress. Strontium and oxygen isotope data established biosphere isotope ranges for the Transylvania Basin and were used to identify seven possible non-local individuals between the two populations. Carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis revealed both populations consumed a diet of terrestrial C3/C4
Crowder, Kayla Diane
Early-life stress in Transylvania : the use of macroscopic and isotopic analyses to examine how early life stress affected survival during periods of political transition. As we see today, and throughout history, continued unrest in a region can have a dramatic impact on the health of the conquered and conquering populations, and the subsequent generations. The aims of this study were to integrate isotopic data (showing diet and mobility) and palaeopathological (disease) analyses to understand the impact of aspects of life such as living conditions, economy and diet, and migration, in locals and non-locals, had on morbidity and mortality. The Iclod Necropolis has been associated with the Kingdom of the Gepids, one of many tribes vying for power in Transylvania during this post-Roman transition of the Migration Period. The BoÌgoÌz Church and FenyeÌd cemetery were occupied during the Arpadian expansion of the Hungarian Kingdom into Transylvania during the Middle Ages. Macroscopic skeletal analyses confirmed both populations had substantial evidence (>50%) of physiological and metabolic stress. Strontium and oxygen isotope data established biosphere isotope ranges for the Transylvania Basin and were used to identify seven possible non-local individuals between the two populations. Carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis revealed both populations consumed a diet of terrestrial C3/C4
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