International Journal of Archaeology

Volume 2, Issue 3, November 2014

  • Health Status in Early Modern Somali People from their Skeletal Remains

    Hisashi Fujita

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 3, November 2014
    Pages: 12-16
    Received: Nov. 17, 2014
    Accepted: Dec. 03, 2014
    Published: Dec. 15, 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ija.20140203.11
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    Abstract: This study discusses the paleohealth of Somali men who lived between the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century and whose skeletal remains are stored at the University of Cambridge. These materials were divided into an early middle age group and a late middle age group based on the degree of cranial suture closure. Physical anthropologi... Show More