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.