Neolithic skeleton reveals early history of rickets
Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 12:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Rickets has been identified in a Neolithic skeleton from the Scottish island of Tiree, making it the earliest case of the disease in the United Kingdom. The nature of the grave itself - a simple burial rather than a chambered tomb - has raised questions as to how the woman, physically deformed by the disease, may have been treated by her community.