Close-up Skeletal Remains 94A (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

Close-up Skeletal Remains 94A

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This is a close-up of the finger bones of individual 94A. Individual 94A was infected with syphilis and was 6 months old at the time of death. The skeleton displays characteristic signs of a treponemal disease.

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Rodrigo Barquera. Santa Isabel collection, Lab. of Osteology, ENAH, Mexico (permission No. 401.15.3-2017/1065 INAH).

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