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https://doi.org/10.14300/mnnc.2025.20057

Paleopathological study of the skeleton from the Alovskaya I burial barrow group

[Morphology]
Olga Kalmina; Dmitry Ikonnikov; Oleg Kalmin; Olga Olegovna Ilyunina;

This article presents the results of the study of the human skeleton from the burial under barrow No 1 of the Alovskaya I barrow group of the Bronze Age. The archaeological site is located on the territory of the Republic of Mordovia and belongs to the Srubnaya archaeological culture. Anthropological materials from the burial were represented by an incomplete human skeleton with traces of multiple pathological changes. The bones were studied in accordance with the standard craniometric and osteometric method of R. Martin as adapted by V. P. Alekseev and G. F. Debets. The research of bone using the cone beam computed tomography method was performed on a VATECH PAX 1 3D device with Ez3D-i64 software. The tomography results were visualized using the GALILEOS Viewer program. The bones from the burial belonged to the man aged 20–30 years old. The individual’s body length was approximately 175.9 cm. The synostosis of the left sacroiliac joint, the traces of an inflammatory process in the pelvic area and osteoarthritis of both hip joints, knee joints and one ankle joint were found at the sceleton. No earlier than one year before the onset of death, the individual underwent surgery to remove the left lower third molar with resection of the lingual wall of the dental alveolus.

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Keywords: Alovskaya I burial barrow group, paleopathology, surgical intervention, osteoarthrosis, Bechterev’s desease