This study is the first comprehensive analysis of trauma prevalence representing a range of tempo... more This study is the first comprehensive analysis of trauma prevalence representing a range of temporal and geographic contexts from eighteen sites across Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and includes new skeletal analysis data from Iron Age Non Ban Jak in northeast Thailand. The aim of this thesis is to use evidence of skeletal trauma combined with material evidence of defensive architecture, weapons and military paraphernalia to test if there was increase in trauma prevalence, especially resulting from interpersonal violence, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. A statistically significant increase in trauma prevalence was observed between the Neolithic and the Iron Age. The patterning of injuries and the similar prevalence of trauma in both sexes in the Neolithic is indicative of accidental mechanisms, with the exception of two cases of cranial trauma suggesting that interpersonal violence may have been experienced by at least some individuals. Trauma prevalence increased in t...
This study is the first comprehensive analysis of trauma prevalence representing a range of tempo... more This study is the first comprehensive analysis of trauma prevalence representing a range of temporal and geographic contexts from eighteen sites across Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and includes new skeletal analysis data from Iron Age Non Ban Jak in northeast Thailand. The aim of this thesis is to use evidence of skeletal trauma combined with material evidence of defensive architecture, weapons and military paraphernalia to test if there was increase in trauma prevalence, especially resulting from interpersonal violence, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. A statistically significant increase in trauma prevalence was observed between the Neolithic and the Iron Age. The patterning of injuries and the similar prevalence of trauma in both sexes in the Neolithic is indicative of accidental mechanisms, with the exception of two cases of cranial trauma suggesting that interpersonal violence may have been experienced by at least some individuals. Trauma prevalence increased in t...
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