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    Difference in Death? A Lost Neolithic Inhumation Cemetery with Britain’s Earliest Case of Rickets, at Balevullin, Western Scotland

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    Publication date
    2015-06
    Author
    Armit, Ian
    Shapland, Fiona
    Montgomery, Janet
    Beaumont, Julia
    Keyword
    Balevullin, Tiree, Western Scotland; Human skeletal remains; Neolithic; Inhumation; Cemetery; Rickets; Antiquarians
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    © 2015 CUP. Full-text reproduced in accordance with the publisher's copyright agreement with the authors.
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    Abstract
    Recent radiocarbon dating of a skeleton from Balevullin, Tiree, excavated in the early twentieth century, demonstrates that it dates to the Neolithic period, rather than the Iron Age as originally expected. Osteological examination suggests that the individual was a young adult woman, exhibiting osteological deformities consistent with vitamin D deficiency, most likely deriving from childhood rickets; an exceptionally early identification of the disease in the UK with potentially significant social implications. Isotopic analysis supports the osteological evidence for physiological stress in childhood and further suggests that the woman was most probably local to the islands. Analysis of the surviving written archive reveals that the surviving skeleton was one of several originally recovered from the site, making Balevullin an exceptionally rare example of a British Neolithic inhumation cemetery.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7364
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    Armit I, Shapland F, Montgomery J and Beaumont J (2015) Difference in Death? A Lost Neolithic Inhumation Cemetery with Britain’s Earliest Case of Rickets, at Balevullin, Western Scotland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 81: 199-214
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2015.7
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