¿Paleopatología Antemortem o Modificación Postmortem? Reconstrucción Facial en el Antiguo EgiptoEstudio de una Cabeza Humana Momificada

  1. Elena Labajo González 1
  2. Despina Moissidou 2
  3. Ángel González Arema 1
  4. José Antonio Sánchez Sánchez 1
  5. Sofia Chavaki 2
  6. Plato Selemenakis 2
  7. María Benito Sánchez 1
  8. Bernardo Perea Pérez 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

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  2. 2 National Kapodistrian University of Athens
Book:
Paleopatología y bioarqueología: Contextualizando el registro óseo. Actas del XIII Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología, Écija (Sevilla) 1-4 octubre de 2015
  1. Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Marta (ed. lit.)
  2. Escudero Carrillo, Javier (ed. lit.)
  3. López Flores, Inmaculada (ed. lit.)
  4. Lucena Romero, Joaquín (ed. lit.)
  5. Mora Rosa, Esther (ed. lit.)
  6. Robles Carrasco, Sonia (ed. lit.)

Publisher: Asociación Española de Paleopatología

ISBN: 978-84-697-6581-4

Year of publication: 2017

Pages: 299-304

Congress: Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología (13. 2015. Écija)

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

The teeth, and the stomatognathic system in general, due to their special characteristics, constitute an optimal record for almost every research on the basis of the identification, necroidentification, Anthropology, Palaeoanthropology, Palaeopathology and population. The mandibular prognathism or III skeletal type is amalposition whose origin is osseous, being caused by a mandibular hyperplasia, a maxillar hypoplasia or both. The result is an anteroposterior discrepancy between both maxillars in which the mandible protrudes in relation to the upper maxilla, being this occurrence an orofacial abnormality whose pattern is highly hereditary. This paper will deal with a case of mandibular prognathism present in a mummified cranium, which currently belongs to the Museo de Antropología Forense, Paleopatología y Criminalística (Escuela de Medicina Legal, Madrid). Radiographic and histologic examinations were performed. Both radiographic and histological data confirm the diagnosis of a false mandibular prognathism caused by a man-made facial reconstruction. The Ancient Egyptian method of embalming included in some cases facial reconstructions to achieve an aspect closer to life. In the case of our mummified human cranium ME 001, a ‘man-made’ mandibular prognathism was the result of a facial reconstruction.

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