Abstract
the aim of this study was to document the traumatic injuries in the late medieval and early modern population from Łekno, Poland (13th-16th centuries AD). The authors studied 247 skeletons (147 males; 81 females; 19 unsexed individuals). In a first step, tauma prevalence rate was calculated with reference to the number of individual skeletons affected. These data were compared with the data from other Polish skeletal series (Cedynia, Czersk, Zlota Pinczowska, Torun, Slaboszewo, Doktorce). Traumatic injury frequencies in Łekno poulation were also calculated with reference to the long bones (clavicula, humerus, radius, femur, tibia, fibula). The obtained results were compared with the simillar data from the selected populations from Central Europe - Slavonic population from the Czech Republic (Pohansko u Břeclavi; 8 th -10 th
Highlights
Trauma may be defined as an injury to living tissue that is caused by force or a mechanism extrinsic to the body (Lovell 1997)
The highest frequency of injuries was noted for the populations from Doktorce (14.0%) and Słaboszewo (13.2%), while the lowest frequencies of traumas were observed in the populations from Czersk (4.3%), Cedynia (4.2%) and Złota Pińczowska (3.45%) (Table 2)
The bones most exposed to injury were the clavicula and ulna
Summary
Trauma may be defined as an injury to living tissue that is caused by force or a mechanism extrinsic to the body (Lovell 1997). The location, structure, conformation and degree of healing of injuries can inform us about their etiology, events that might have caused them and possible treatments (Jurmain 2001). They provide useful information about occupational, behavioral, socio-cultural and even environmental aspects of the individuals’and populations’lives (Judd 2002; Judd, Roberts 1999; Larsen 1987, 1997; Lovejoy, Haiple 1981; Ortner, Putschar 1981; Scott, Buckley 2010). As cross-cultural phenomena, provide an opportunity to make inter- and intra-populational comparisons, and thereby can add to the knowledge about the activity, demographic distribution, occupation, living conditions, health of investigated individuals and/or populations (Brasili et al 2004; Judd, Roberts 1998)
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