Earliest Cranio-Encephalic Trauma from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic: 3D Reappraisal of the Qafzeh 11 Skull, Consequences of Pediatric Brain Damage on Individual Life Condition and Social Care

被引：18

作者：

Coqueugniot, Helene ^{[1
,2
]}

Dutour, Olivier ^{[1
,3
,4
]}

Arensburg, Baruch ^{[5
]}

Duday, Henri ^{[1
,3
]}

Vandermeersch, Bernard ^{[1
]}

Tillier, Anne-marie ^{[1
,6
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Bordeaux, CNRS, Unite Mixte Rech Prehist Actuel Culture Environm, Pessac, France

[2] Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Dept Human Evolut, Leipzig, Germany

[3] Ecole Prat Hautes Etud, Lab Anthropol Biol Paul Broca, Paris, France

[4] Univ Western Ontario, Dept Anthropol, London, ON, Canada

[5] Tel Aviv Univ, Sackler Sch Med, Dept Anat & Anthropol, Ramat Aviv, Israel

[6] Univ Penn, Museum Archaeol & Anthropol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

来源：

PLOS ONE | 2014年 / 9卷 / 07期

关键词：

CEREBRAL ASYMMETRIES; COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY; ENAMEL; INJURY; ISRAEL; PATHOLOGY; REMAINS; STRESS;

D O I：

10.1371/journal.pone.0102822

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

The Qafzeh site (Lower Galilee, Israel) has yielded the largest Levantine hominin collection from Middle Palaeolithic layers which were dated to circa 90-100 kyrs BP or to marine isotope stage 5b-c. Within the hominin sample, Qafzeh 11, circa 1213 yrs old at death, presents a skull lesion previously attributed to a healed trauma. Three dimensional imaging methods allowed us to better explore this lesion which appeared as being a frontal bone depressed fracture, associated with brain damage. Furthermore the endocranial volume, smaller than expected for dental age, supports the hypothesis of a growth delay due to traumatic brain injury. This trauma did not affect the typical human brain morphology pattern of the right frontal and left occipital petalia. It is highly probable that this young individual suffered from personality and neurological troubles directly related to focal cerebral damage. Interestingly this young individual benefited of a unique funerary practice among the south-western Asian burials dated to Middle Palaeolithic.

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