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This short note illustrates facial and head features found in a stone sculpture of the ancient, Precolumbian period in a temple of the Mayan city of Copan (Honduras). The authors… Click to show full abstract
This short note illustrates facial and head features found in a stone sculpture of the ancient, Precolumbian period in a temple of the Mayan city of Copan (Honduras). The authors believe that this observation may support paleoanthropological evidence of Paget’s disease of bone, an osteodystrophy described in the Mesoamerican Indian populations before the first millennium A.D.
Keywords:
stone sculpture;
disease bone;
paget disease
Journal Title: Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
Year Published: 2017
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