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Rūn-cofa
October 17, 2019
Norþan-hymbre
October 17, 2019

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    CODEWORD:

    Niht-waco

    WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?

    DIG:2004 #268
    A skeleton in the bowl hole graveyard

    What this skeleton told us: Evidence

    An older adult of uncertain sex due to the relatively poor state of skeletal preservation. The teeth had evidence of plaque and tooth decay, thinned enamel (enamel defects, or hypoplasia) and tooth loss in life.

    Interpretation of the evidence

    In common with many of the people buried at the Bowl Hole, dental hygiene appears to have been poor for this adult. Tooth decay indicates sugar in his/her diet. The enamel hypoplasia illustrates that in childhood this person had a deficient diet or disease.

    A skeleton with codename Niht-waco as discovered in the bowl hole graveyard

    Niht-waco as found, select for full photo

    A drawing of skeleton with codename Niht-waco as discovered in the bowl hole graveyard

    The archaeologist's drawing of Niht-waco

    Where Niht-waco was found in the graveyard

    Niht-waco

    Night watches. Niht; night and Wacol wakeful, alert.

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