Abstract
Abstract. Findings from Bronze Age burials of Shengavit settlement have become a source of multiple studies referred to anthropological, and especially odontological, research based on 3d imaging and image processing techniques. The currently presented case is an example of palaeopathological analysis of bone tissue resorption caused by complications of dental pathologies. Thus by analogy with diagnostic procedures in clinical dentistry, conventional x-ray based cone-beam tomographic scanning have been applied and have shown its effectiveness as a study method. Through CBCT imaging we managed to reveal a hidden pathological process in the body of the studied semi-mandible fragment, though initially another pathological area located on the same finding was planned to be studied. Application of micro-computed tomography has improved analytical, or diagnostic, part of the current palaepathological study. It has brought to finding unusual morphological features hypothetically causing bone resorption as a complication of dental pathological conditions. However our intention to obtain 3d reconstructions as evidence supporting the most likely version required several attempts to correct image processing in line with the increase of imaging resolution.
Highlights
Skeletal remains play a significant part in archaeological and anthropological research
At the time studies of dental pathology are the meeting point for both anthropology and dentistry, supported by corresponding imaging and reconstructive techniques, among which x-ray based methods have taken at a certain moment the leading role (Wu and Schepartz, 2009; Zaim et al, 2011)
The planned dental studies regarding the preserved teeth of the semi-mandible from Shengavit as well as more profound palaeopathological studies required conducting micro-computed tomography as well. The obtained through these high resolution reconstructions data was used for analyses of the
Summary
Skeletal remains play a significant part in archaeological and anthropological research. At the time studies of dental pathology are the meeting point for both anthropology and dentistry, supported by corresponding imaging and reconstructive techniques, among which x-ray based methods have taken at a certain moment the leading role (Wu and Schepartz, 2009; Zaim et al, 2011). This has happened largely due to their ability to reveal hidden structures, to study their physical parameters, morphology and other characteristics. The studied sample was scanned by the both methods for obtaining morphological reconstructions of teeth and bone tissue in different resolutions, which provided the basis for detecting bone resorption and analysis of possible causative pathologic conditions
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