Journal article
Precarious adolescence: Adolescent rickets and anterior sacral angulation in two Dutch skeletal collections from the 18th–19th centuries
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: This project aims to provide an objective approach to suggesting cases of adolescent rickets using the presence of anterior sacral angulation and interglobular dentine.
MATERIALS: Sacra from 49 individuals from Hattem and 150 individuals from Middenbeemster, and second and third molars from five individuals from Hattem were analyzed. Both sites date to the 17th to 19th centuries.
Authors
Lamer M; Veselka B; Schrader S; Hoogland M; Brickley MB
Journal
International Journal of Paleopathology, Vol. 40, , pp. 63–69
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
March 2023
DOI
10.1016/j.ijpp.2022.12.006
ISSN
1879-9817