A Case of Surgical Treatment of Lower Molars in a Mesolithic Sample from a Cemetery on the Yuzhny Oleniy Ostrov, Karelia, Russia

• Published in: Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia
• Main Authors: A. V. Zubova, O. L. Pikhur, V. G. Moiseyev, A. A. Malyutina, A. V. Obodovskiy, O. A. Kalmina
• Other Authors: This study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Project No. 21-18-00376.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IAET SB RAS 2024
• Subjects: septic cavernous sinus thrombosis; tooth extraction; osteomyelitis; paleopathology; Argentina; Oleniy; Oleniy Ostrov; Onega; karelia*
• Online Access: https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1772; https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2023.51.4.135-141

Here, we present the earliest case of surgical treatment of mandibular permanent molars known in Northern Eurasia. It concerns an aged woman buried at a Mesolithic cemetery on the Yuzhny Oleniy Ostrov (Island) in Lake Onega, southern Karelia, 8250–8050 cal BP. Our objective was to reconstruct the te...