Eastern Roman mounted archers and extraordinary medico-surgical interventions at Paliokastro in Thasos Island during the ProtoByzantine period : the historical and medical history records and the archaeo-anthropological evidence /

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Author / Creator:Agelarakis, Anagnostis P., 1956- author.
Imprint:Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., [2020]
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Description:1 online resource (iv, 50 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
Language:English
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ISBN:178969602X
9781789696028
1789696011
9781789696011
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:Procopius' 'History of the Wars', and the 'Strategikon' offer important aspects of Eastern Roman military tactical changes adopted against their enemies that brought the mounted archer-lancer to domineer in the synthesis of the army, along with concise descriptions of their training, panoply, and effectiveness in the battlefield during the later ProtoByzantine period. Yet, evidence in the archaeo-anthropological records of these highly specialized military members has remained elusive.0A recent archaeological discovery at the strategically positioned, upland, site of Paliokastro in Thasos island, Greece, and the subsequent study of the human skeletal remains interred in four monumental funerary contexts, in a dedicated 'naiskos' building, provide for the first time through the archaeological record of the region a unique insight of the mounted archers and their female kin during the turbulent ProtoByzantine period. The interdisciplinary study of the anthropological materials focusing on skeletal developmental, acquired skeleto-muscular manifestations and skeleto-anatomical changes recovered valuable evidentiary data on aspects of their in vivo long-term training and preparation, traumatisms and pathologies along with extraordinary traces of cranial and infra-cranial surgical interventions and medical regimens by the hands of a most experienced surgeon.0In conjunction with the archaeological and anthropological evidence, historical and medical history records are integrated aiming toward a nexus with the human dynamics that transpired at Paliokastro within the context of the catastrophic consequences of the 'barbarian' invasions in the Aegean Thraco-Macedonia, and the ravages afforded by the Justinian plague during the later component of the ProtoByzantine period.
Other form:Print version: Agelarakis, Anagnostis P., 1956- Eastern Roman mounted archers and extraordinary medico-surgical interventions at Paliokastro in Thasos Island during the ProtoByzantine period. Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., [2020] 1789696011 9781789696011

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505 0 |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figure 1. Thasos island in a regional map of the Eastern Roman Empire, rendering by Argie Agelarakis. -- Figure 2. Map of Thasos island, with the location of its capital city Limenas, its villages and settlements, and the location of Paliokastro (see arrow) in the region of Rachoni village, rendering by Argie Agelarakis. -- Figure 3. Seaward view of Rachoni region and location of Paliokastro site. 
505 8 |a Figure 4. Field of view just above the olive groves of Rachoni village, at a lower elevation than the site of Paliokastro. -- Figure 5. Uncovering the slab stones from the graves within the naiskos' floor. -- Figure 6. The four graves within the naiskos' floor. -- Figure 7. North, long, wall of grave No. 2. -- Figure 8. Pessokranon, decorative architectural component of naiskos. -- Figure 9. Thasos archaeological Museum laboratory -- Adelphi student assistants during the skeletal analysis. -- Table 1. Basic archaeological proveniences and demographic profile of Paliokastro population sample. 
505 8 |a Figure 10. Anthropological remains in situ. -- Figure 11. Sample case on dental anthropology. -- Figure 12. Colles fracture healed, palaeopathological manifestations, and matters of skeletal preservation. -- Figure 13. Anterior view of bilateral tibial diaphyseal healed fractures. -- Figure 14. Length of tibial callus on its anterior crest. -- Figure 15. X-ray imaging of bilateral healed tibial fractures with corresponding loci of the skeletal samples. -- Figure 16. X-ray imaging of bilateral healed tibial fractures focusing on the right tibial callus formation. 
505 8 |a Figure 17. Degrees of bilateral tibial diaphyseal posterior angulation on the sagittal plane. -- Figure 18. Active, in the healing process, and healed periosteal tibial diaphyseal reactions. -- Figure 19. Fibular diaphysis showing manifestations of infectious complications. -- Figure 20. Bilateral fibular diaphyseal infectious complications, with healed fracture locus (red arrows). 
505 8 |a Figure 21. Map of the northern Aegean shores and mainland regional to Thasos island [Excerpt from Weigel, C., (1720), Descriptio Orbis Antique, XLIV Tabulis, Graeciae Septentrionalis Pars, Nuremberg]: (1) Thasos island, (2) Ulpia Topirus (Topirus), (3) An -- Figure 22. Ectocranial left latero-posterior view of cranial component showing surgical intervention. -- Figure 23. Ectocranial view of palaeopathological specimen: a) red arrow points to orifice on the mastoid process, and b) surgical preparation dimensions peripheral to trephination. 
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