Archaeologists in Poland excavating a cemetery by a monastery have discovered the remains of a medieval man who had two different forms of dwarfism.
On the grounds of a medieval monastery in Poland, archaeologists have discovered the skeletal remains of a man with two forms of dwarfism, a rare condition that has never been seen before in an ancient skeleton..
When archaeologists excavated the monastic cemetery in 1990, they found more than 400 burials, including a male individual labeled Ł3/66/90. Carbon dating of the skeleton suggested that the man lived in the ninth to 11th centuries. But"the fact that the grave was located on a wall of the stronghold is puzzling," bioarchaeologist Magdalena Matczak told Live Science in an email."Such burials were not practiced in medieval Poland.
In addition, based on the man's turned-out elbows and high, arched dental palate, Matczak and her team determined that the man had a rare condition called Léri-Weill dyschondrosteosis . Francesco Galassi , a paleopathologist at Flinders University in Australia who was not involved with the study, told Live Science in an email that"these two conditions were known to coexist in contemporary patients, but no ancient skeletal evidence for it had been put forward" until Matczak and colleagues' study.
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