著者

MARC F. OXENHAM LORNA TILLEY HIROFUMI MATSUMURA LAN CUONG NGUYEN KIM THUY NGUYEN KIM DUNG NGUYEN KATE DOMETT DAMIEN HUFFER

出版者

日本人類学会

雑誌

Anthropological Science (ISSN:09187960)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.117, no.2, pp.107-112, 2009 (Released:2009-07-24)

参考文献数

32

被引用文献数

12 36 9

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This communication documents one of the earliest verifiable cases of human paralysis associated with severe spinal pathology. A series of skeletal abnormalities is described for a young adult male (M9) from a Southeast Asian Neolithic community. Differential diagnosis suggests that M9 suffered from a severely disabling congenital fusion of the spine (Klippel–Feil Syndrome, Type III), resulting in child-onset lower body paralysis at a minimum (maximally quadriplegia). M9 experienced severe, most probably total, incapacitation for at least a decade prior to death. In the prehistoric context, this individual’s condition would have rendered him completely dependent on others for survival.