Roman York skeleton could be early TB victim
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 09:43
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The skeleton of a man discovered by archaeologists in a shallow grave on the site of the University of York's campus expansion could be that of one of Britain's earliest victims of tuberculosis. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the man died in the fourth century. He was interred in a shallow scoop in a flexed position, on his left side.
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