Abstract

The collection of human remains (16 individuals, including 10 males, 2 females, and 4 children) from the burial mounds of the Pazyryk culture, located in the Ak-Alakhi River Valley has been analyzed. This paleoanthropological evidence had been previously studied using a craniometric and odontoscopic methodology, however, the bioarchaeological information reflecting the effects of biological and sociocultural environmental factors was ignored. This article describes tumor pathologies found on the bones. High incidence of tumor diseases in this group has been observed. Taking into account the female mummy from the Ak-Alakha-3 burial mound, whose tomographic examination revealed the breast tumor and metastatic oncological decease in the bodies of the thoracic vertebrae Th1-Th3 (Letyagin, Savelov, 2014), this pathology has been found in five individuals, which constitutes over 30 % of the adult group. Three young males from the burials in the Ak-Alakha-1, Ak-Alakha-5, and Bertek-12 complexes had metaphyseal tumors, which we diagnosed as osteochondromae and ososteoid osteomae. Pathological hypertrophy was found on the slope of sphenoid bone, on the outer surface of the basilar part of the occipital bone in the sphenoid-occipital synostosis, and in the sphenoid sinus on male remains from the burial mound at Ak-Alakha-5. The factors which might have caused skeletal bone tumors could include skeletal overload in the early age, endocrine disorders such as hyperfunction of the thyroid gland, dietary features, method of cooking on the open fire, smoke from the hearth in the dwellings in cold weather, and environmental factors.

Keywords

Altai Mountains, Pazyryk culture, bone tumors, metaphyseal cartilage, osteochondroma, osteoma

Chikisheva T.A.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1985-1369

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

Aristova E.S.

Novosibirsk State Medical University

Elyasin P.A.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2570-367X

Novosibirsk State Medical University

Polosmak N.V.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3760-265X

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

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