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An Early christian chapel and burial ground on the Isle of Ensay Outer Hebrides Scotland with a study of the skeletal remains.
Albert Edward William Miles
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Front Cover
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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GENERAL ACCOUNT
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The island
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The burial ground
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The chapel
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The wall investing the site
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Black-house foundations and other walls adjacent to the burial ground
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The interments
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Associated artifacts
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Dates of interments
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INFORMATION DERIVED FROM THE SKELETAL REMAINS
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Sex
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Ages
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Statures
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General features of the dentitions
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Cranial characteristics and genetic affinities
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Metopism
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Bathrocephaly
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Skeletal or skeletally-associated evidence of disorders
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Introduction
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Developmental anomalies of the spine
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Lumbo-sacral pseudo-arthroses
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Premature age changes in ribs
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Osteoporosis
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Extra-skeletal mineralization
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Bony injuries
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i) General
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ii) Compression fractures and other injuries of vertebral bodies
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iii) Fractures of neural arches of lumbar vertebrae
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Non-specific suppurative disorders
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Skeletal tuberculosis
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Skeletal syphilis
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Degenerative joint disease
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i) Osteo-arthrosis of synovial joints
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ii) Degenerative spondylosis (spondylitis deformans)
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iii) Schmorl (cartilaginous) nodes
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iv) Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostotis (DISH)
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Rheumatoid arthritis
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Ankylosing spondylitis
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Other causes of ankylosis of vertebrae
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Neoplasia and similar lesions
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Miscellaneous lesions
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Periodontal disease
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Dental Caries
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The Level D group
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DISCUSSION
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The chapel
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The pebbles
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The investing wall
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The chapel site
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Date of the engulfment of the chapel by sandblows
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Population of Ensay
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Uncoffined burials
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The age-at-death distribution of the interments
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Statures
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Causes of morbidity and death
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Future of the site
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APPENDIX A
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APPENDIX B
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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SUMMARY
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REFERENCE LIST
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Published: 1989
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9780860546733 (paperback)
- 9781407318363 (ebook)
BAR Number: B212