Osteoarthritis in Siberia's Cis-Baikal: Skeletal indicators of hunter-gatherer adaptation and cultural change

This examination of osteoarthritis in Siberia's Cis‐Baikal region focuses on the reconstruction of mid‐Holocene mobility and activity patterns with particular interest in an alleged fifth millennium BC biocultural hiatus. Five cemetery populations—–two representing the pre‐hiatus Kitoi culture...

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Published in:American journal of physical anthropology 2007-01, Vol.132 (1), p.1-16
Main Authors: Lieverse, Angela R., Weber, Andrzej W., Bazaliiskiy, Vladimir Ivanovich, Goriunova, Olga Ivanovna, Savel'ev, Nikolai Aleksandrovich
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Biological - physiology
Adult
Age Factors
Child
Culture
degenerative joint disease
Diseases
Female
forager
Foragers
Fossils
Geography
History, Ancient
Holocene
Human development
Humans
Joints - pathology
Lake Baikal
Male
Middle Holocene
Morphology
Motor Activity - physiology
Osteoarthritis - epidemiology
Osteoarthritis - history
Osteoarthritis - pathology
Paleopathology
Physical anthropology
Prevalence
Siberia
Siberia - epidemiology
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Summary:This examination of osteoarthritis in Siberia's Cis‐Baikal region focuses on the reconstruction of mid‐Holocene mobility and activity patterns with particular interest in an alleged fifth millennium BC biocultural hiatus. Five cemetery populations—–two representing the pre‐hiatus Kitoi culture (6800–4900 BC) and three the post‐hiatus Serovo‐Glaskovo (4200–1000 BC)—are considered. The objective is to investigate osteoarthritic prevalence and distribution (patterning) within and among these populations in order to reconstruct mobility and activity patterns among the Cis‐Baikal foragers, and to test for possible disparities that may reflect differing adaptive strategies. The data reveal that levels of activity remained relatively constant throughout the mid‐Holocene but that mobility and specific activity patterns did not. Although results are consistent with the current understanding of distinct Kitoi and Serovo‐Glaskovo subsistence regimes, specifically the lower residential mobility and narrower resource base of the former, they also draw attention to adaptive characteristics shared by all occupants of the Cis‐Baikal. Am J Phys Anthropol, 2006. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
ISSN:0002-9483
1096-8644
DOI:10.1002/ajpa.20479