This short note illustrates facial and head features found in a stone sculpture of the ancient, Precolumbian period in a temple of the Mayan city of Copan ( Honduras). The authors believe that this observation may support paleoanthropological evidence of Paget's disease of bone, an osteodystrophy described in the Mesoamerican Indian populations before the first millennium A.D.
A likely cranial osteodystrophy (Paget’s disease of bone) in a pre-Columbian, mesoamerican stone sculpture / Toni, R; Ceglia, L. - In: JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION. - ISSN 1720-8386. - 40:7(2017), pp. 787-788. [10.1007/s40618-017-0612-3]
A likely cranial osteodystrophy (Paget’s disease of bone) in a pre-Columbian, mesoamerican stone sculpture
Toni, R
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2017-01-01
Abstract
This short note illustrates facial and head features found in a stone sculpture of the ancient, Precolumbian period in a temple of the Mayan city of Copan ( Honduras). The authors believe that this observation may support paleoanthropological evidence of Paget's disease of bone, an osteodystrophy described in the Mesoamerican Indian populations before the first millennium A.D.File in questo prodotto:
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