Health and Disease in the Neolithic Lengyel Culture.

• Author: Smrčka, Václav.
• Place / Publishing House: Prague : : Karolinum Press,, 2022.; {copy}2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction (Václav Smrčka) -- 1.1 Definition of the Neolithic Demographic Transition -- 1.2 Adoption of Farming: Insect Patterns, the Origin of Complex Society -- 1.3 Archaeological Evidence of the Neolithic Diet -- 1.4 Biological Evidence of the Neolithic Diet -- 1.4.1 Trace Element Analyses -- 1.4.2 Isotopic Analyses-Distinguishing Neolithic Migratory Populations -- 1.5 Agriculture, the Probable Reason for Bone Pathology -- 1.5.1 Manifestation of Shortage and Disease -- 1.6 Agriculture and Zoonoses -- 1.7 The Aim of this Publication -- 1.8 Summary of Individual Chapters -- 2. The Lengyel Culture in Hungary (Olivér Gábor) -- 2.1 Time and Territorial Boundaries -- 2.1.1 Area -- 2.1.2 Origin, Spread, Dating and Periods of the Culture -- 2.2 Sites -- 2.2.1 Settlements -- 2.2.2 Cemeteries -- 2.2.3 Zengővárkony (Settlement and Burial Site) -- 2.3 Pottery -- 2.4 Metallurgy -- 2.5 Everyday Life Utensils and Craftsmens' Tools -- 2.6 Archaeozoological Evidence of Changes in Abundance of Animals in Late Neolithic and Eneolithic (Chalcolithic) Period -- 2.7 Beliefs and Circular Ditch Systems -- 2.8 Society, Ethnicity -- 2.9 Analyzed Graves -- 2.9.1 Zengővárkony -- 2.9.2 Villánykővesd -- 3. Lengyel Culture Sites in Baranya and Tolna County: Paleopathologicaand Archaeological Description -- 3.1 Zengővárkony -- 3.1.1 Palaeopathological Analysis (Václav Smrčka, Zdenka Musilová, Vítězslav Kuželka) -- 3.1.2 Gender Roles of the Makers of the Lengyel Culture in Terms of the Zengővárkony Grave Finds (Eva Čermáková) -- 3.2 Villánykővesd: Archaeological and Anthropological Description, Paleopathologic Analysis (Václav Smrčka, Zdenka Musilová) -- 3.2.1 Archaeological and Anthropological Description -- 3.2.2 Paleopathological Characteristic of the Analysed Collection (N = 23).

3.3 Belvárdgyula-Szarkahegy: Archaeological Description and Paleopathologic Analysis (Václav Smrčka and Zdenka Musilová) -- 3.3.1 Archaeological Description -- 3.3.2 Paleopathological Analysis (N = 21) -- 3.4 Belvárdgyula-Szarkahegy: Results of the Macroscopical and Histological Examination (Ctibor Povýšil and Václav Smrčka) -- 3.4.1 Macroscopical Findings (Václav Smrčka) -- 3.4.2 Histological Examination (Ctibor Povýšil) -- 3.5 The Burial of a Woman of Lengyel Culture with Perimortem Trauma of Lower Extremities at Borjád-Kenderföld (Václav Smrčka, Zdenka Musilová, Csilla Gáti) -- 3.5.1 Site Summary. Based on the Archaeological Find -- 3.5.2 Osteology -- 3.5.3 Strontium Analysis -- 3.6 Alsónyék-Bátaszék: Paleopathological Examination of the Late Neolithic Site Excavated at Alsónyék-Bátaszék (Kitti Köhler) -- 3.6.1 Introduction -- 3.6.2 Material -- 3.6.3 Methods -- 3.6.4 Results -- 3.7 Artificial Deformation of Teeth in Lengyel Culture (Václav Smrčka, Zdenka Musilová, Štefan Rástočný, David Dick) -- 4. Carbon and Nitrogen Analysis: Zengővárkony and Villánykővesd (Václav Smrčka, Jakub Trubač, Martin Hill, Zdenka Musilová, Lenka Půtová, Sylva Drtikolová Kaupová, Štefan Rástočný) -- 4.1 Zengővárkony -- 4.2 Villánykővesd -- 5. Strontium Analysis: Zengővárkony, Villánykővesd, Belvárdgyula, Borjád-Kenderföld (Václav Smrčka, Jakub Trubač, Zdenka Musilová, Martin Hill, Lenka Půtová, Štefan Rástočný) -- 5.1 Zengővárkony -- 5.2 Villánykővesd -- 5.3 Belvárdgyula -- 5.4 Borjád-Kenderföld -- 6. Villánykővesd and Zengővárkony: Trace Elements in Tooth Enamel and Femurs of the Lengyel Culture (Václav Smrčka, Martin Mihaljevič, Jakub Trubač, Zdenka Musilová, Martin Hill, Lenka Půtová, Štefan Rástočný, Ivo Němec) -- 7. Lengyel Culture in Moravia (Zdeněk Hájek, Alžběta Čerevková).

8. Anthropological Analysis of Skeletal Remains of People of the Lengyel Culture in Moravia (Martina Fojtová, Zdeněk Tvrdý, Ivana Jarošová) -- 9. Survey of Bone Diseases in Moravian Neolithic Cultures (Václav Smrčka, Zdeněk Tvrdý) -- 10. Comparison of the Diet of the Lengyel Culture with those of Earlier Neolithic Cultures of Moravia: Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis (Václav Smrčka, František Bůzek, Jarmila Zocová, Ivan Zoc, Marta Dočkalová) -- 10.1 Těšetice-Kyjovice: Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis -- 10.2 Moravian Neolithic Settlements: Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis and Trace Element Analysis -- 11. Neolithic Human Migration of Moravia in Strontium Isotopes (Vojtěch Erban, Václav Smrčka, Marta Dočkalová) -- 12. Trace Elements in Bones of the Neolithic Cultures of Moravia (Václav Smrčka, Martin Mihaljevič, Jarmila Zocová, Ivan Zoc, Ivo Němec) -- 13. Conclusion: The Lifestyle and Morbidity of the Lengyel Culture (Václav Smrčka) -- 13.1 The Life Cycle in the Lengyel Culture Age Groups -- 13.1.1 Infants -- 13.1.2 Children -- 13.1.3 Juvenis -- 13.1.4 Adultus -- 13.1.5 Maturus -- 13.1.6 Males -- 13.1.7 Females -- 13.2 Differences of the LgC Lifestyle from the Early Neolithic LPC and SPC Cultures -- 13.2.1 Metal -- 13.2.2 Aggression in the Lengyel Culture -- 13.2.3 Diet, Mobility and Bone Health in LgC -- 13.2.4 Occupations in LgC -- 13.2.5 Artificial Deformation of Teeth -- 13.3 Pathological Profile of the Lengyel Culture in Various Regions -- 13.3.1 Congenital Defects -- 13.3.2 Degenerative Joint Diseases -- 13.3.3 Trauma -- 13.3.4 Nonspecific Inflammations -- 13.3.5 Specific Inflammations -- 13.3.6 Anaemia -- 13.3.7 Benign Tumours -- 13.3.8 Malignant Tumours -- 13.3.9 Spreading of Zoonoses and the Beginnings of the Decline of the Neolithic Lifestyle -- Appendix: Methodology -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors.