LE MORT, Françoise; BAKER, Joseph Oussama; CHAMEL, Bérénice; COQUEUGNIOT, Hélène; DUTOUR, Olivier

doi:10.1016/j.tube.2023.102388

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LE MORT, Françoise
ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien [Archéorient]

BAKER, Joseph Oussama
École Pratique des Hautes Études [EPHE]
ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien [Archéorient]

CHAMEL, Bérénice
Institut Français du Proche-Orient [IFPO]
ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien [Archéorient]

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Tuberculosis. 2023, vol. 143, n° Supplement, p. 102388

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Recent studies combining macroscopical observations and microCT analysis strongly suggested the diagnosis of tuberculosis for a child from the site of Khirokitia (Cyprus, 7th-early 6th millennium cal. BC), whose age at death is between 5 and 7 years. Many single primary burials were discovered at the site where the dead (MNI=243) are buried in the same way, whatever their age. Nevertheless, the burial of this child presents a unique feature on the site (a male Ovis trophy marking the limit of the burial pit), probably indicating specific attention for this young deceased. This case is the oldest known in the Mediterranean islands and presents a particular interest from a paleoepidemiological point of view. Indeed, considering, on the one hand, the settlement pattern of the island of Cyprus by migrants from the Near East, and on the other hand, the presence of human tuberculosis in the Near East as early as about 10,500 years BP, it is very likely that the prehistoric migrants brought the disease from mainland to Cyprus.< Réduire

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Oldest evidence of tuberculosis in the Mediterranean islands: From the mainland to Cyprus

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