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Roberto Micciche

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PROBLEMS OF DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS IN PALEOPATHOLOGY

2021

This work discusses on the problems of the differential diagnosis in paleopathology, describing one case of intense modification observed in a skeletal sample from the archaelogical site of Baucina (Sicily, VI century BCE). Difficulties in this setting originate mainly from the aspecificity or absence of pathological markers on ancient bones and confounding features arising from clinical phenocopies or taphonomic artifacts. On the base of an in-depth morphological analysis of the find, with aid of CT scan imaging and wide revision of the medical and paleopathological literature, we arrived to a convincing diagnosis.

Differential diagnosisanthropologySettore BIO/08 - Antropologia
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The discovery of a Mycenaean-type tholos tomb in the Bronze Age necropolis of the Gazzi buried floodplain (Messina, Southern Italy): new geological a…

2019

This paper deals with a monument that is, up to this date, unique in Sicily and in the Italian peninsula: the Mycenaean-type tholos tomb of the Gazzi necropolis in Messina. A recent excavation in the alluvial deposits revealed extensive traces of a funerary area with a tholos tomb and several enchytrismos tombs with skeletal remains, presumably dated back to the end of the Early or the initial stage of the Middle(?) Bronze Age. The present multi-disciplinary investigation has been developed to analyse new data related to sediments, building stones and skeletal remains of this funerary area. The stratigraphic succession hosting the necropolis was formed by overbank sediments deposited on the…

geographygeography.geographical_feature_categoryEarly-Middle Bronze Age; necropolis; Mycenaean-type tholos; Messina Holocene alluvial plain; building stones; human skeletal remainsFloodplainPaleontologynecropoliSettore BIO/08 - AntropologiaEarly-Middle Bronze AgeArchaeologyhuman skeletal remains.Type (biology)Bronze AgeMycenaean-type tholobuilding stoneMessina Holocene alluvial plainGeology
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The New Finding of a Mycenaean Tholos in the Alluvial Deposits of the Messina Coastal Plain (north-Eastern Sicily): Stratigraphic and Palaeoenvironme…

2012

Achaeology coastal plain Holocene Mycenaean tholos Strait of Messinacoastal plainHoloceneMycenaean tholosAchaeologyStrait of MessinaSettore BIO/08 - AntropologiaArchaeology coastal plain Holocene Mycenaean Tholos Strait of Messina Anthropology
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