Doctoral theses
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000029729 |
| Title |
Μελέτη κρανίων και ειδώλων που απεικονίζουν την κεφαλή και τον τράχηλο από τη μινωική περίοδο |
| Alternative Title |
Study of skulls and idols depicting the head and neck areas from the minoan era |
| Creator |
Skoulakis, Charalambos
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| Creator |
Skoulakis, Charalambos
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| Abstract |
The study of archeological findings (depictions and skulls) of the Minoan era intends to register and make known the diseases related with head and neck which regarded the Minoans and also the conceptions they had about the confrontation of health problems as well as the characteristics of the Minoans themselves. The material of this study (depictions and skulls) becomes from excavations of archeological sites of Crete found mainly in the Museum of Heraklion either exhibited at the show-cases (windows) or placed in its storerooms. During this study depictions of the human body in normal and pathological conditions were examined. The most important depictions regarding pathological conditions are the idols that the Minoans used to place at the Top Sanctuaries invoking God's help for certain health problems. Such idols were examined the ones that are exhibited at the Museum show-cases (approximately one hundred) as well as some others found in the Museum storerooms (approximately fifty). From those, six idols were recognized to represent head and neck diseases. Yet, 85 skulls found in the Museum coming from excavations of Minoan graves were studied. These skulls were studied using the classic methods of the Anthropologic and Forensic Sciences which include sex definition, age estimation, specification of racial characteristics, observation of the particular characteristics of the individual and his teething and finally study for possible pathologic conditions or lesions on skull bones. The results of the study of idols are as follows: On two idols there was an asymmetry of the face found similar to the facial nerve paralysis. One idol represents asymmetry of the face but also deformity of one half of the body, picture of hemiplegia. One idol represents a patient with neck tumor. Another idol represents an individual with reciprocal rift on the face. Finally, a idol represents a projected throat and trachea emphasizing the trachea semirings. Except from the idols there was an earthen kidneyshaped pot found in the Museum storerooms similar to the pots often used in Medicine. The results of the study of skulls show that 42 of them belonged to men, 29 of them belonged to women and 14 were of indefinable sex. The age of these skulls was between 8 and 50 years old. Their racial characteristics correspond to the Mediterranean type of white race. Severe lesions which had occurred during the individual's life were not found. Other serious pathologic conditions related to the individual's cause of death were not recognized. Findings related to little variance from natural were enough. Scoliosis of the bone part of nasal septum, exostoses at the dome of the cranium, septum in the maxilary sinus, were found in some skulls. With the use of computers, there was a recomposition of the face in one of the feminine skulls achieved. The results proved from the present study are: · Health matters worried the Minoans seriously. They knew a lot of nosologic entities and also had knowledge of the anatomy of the human body. · They made idols representing diseases and they offered them to their Gods begging for their help. · From the craniofacial characteristics analysis of the skulls of the Minoans themselves it is concluded that they belong to the Mediterranean type of the white race. · The size of the Minoans' skulls as well as the capacity of the various ventricles of the skull (cranial ventricle, paranasal cavities) do not show serious difference from the equivalent sizes of the present inhabitants of Crete.
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Greek |
| Issue date |
1997-12-01 |
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1998-04-5 |
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School/Department--School of Medicine--Department of Medicine--Doctoral theses
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Type of Work--Doctoral theses
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| Permanent Link |
https://elocus.lib.uoc.gr//dlib/b/b/9/metadata-dlib-1997skoulakis.tkl
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