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Archaeologists in Greece are currently incorporating more skeletal studies into their research designs by testing hypotheses and drawing inferences about diet and nutrition, health and disease, demography and physical behavior, as well as lifestyle in the past. Current skeletal analyses in the country do not focus only on prehistoric populations; during the last few years, human skeletal material from highly ignored time periods (i.e., the Byzantine and the post-Byzantine) has also contributed to the reconstruction of health patterns in the past.In this study, we present the results of the analysis of human remains from the proto-Byzantine site (6th–7th centuries a.d.) of Sourtara Galaniou Kozanis in northern Greece. Additionally, we intend this research to provide information on specific pathological conditions that are suggestive of stress—either environmentally or culturally induced—during a turbulent era of Greek history, and the impact of these factors on specific age groups, such as subadults. These results are expected to contribute to our relatively restricted knowledge of that era in northern Greece, and, when compared with analyses of other contemporaneous populations, help us to reconstruct the patterns of life and disease in the country.
is study reports on the human remains of 39 individuals uncovered at the Early Byzantine cemetery of Maroneia in race, Greece (5-6 c. AD). Results on physiological and activity related stress indicators do not show deteriorating living conditions caused by major geopolitical transformation, social upheavals or natural disasters but rather a peasant lifestyle and adequate diet. e sample includes two individuals with intentional cranial modification, a practice that was not customary in Christian tradition. Biocultural evidence supports the hypothesis that these individuals had a cultural origin which was linked to the Huns. e combined analysis of historical, archaeological and skeletal data allows interpretations of health, lifestyle and biosocial complexity during Early Christian times in Greece.
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