INVESTIGADORES
SUBY Jorge Alejandro
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
El Cementerio De La Antigua Misión Salesiana "La Candelaria" (Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina).
Autor/es:
GARCIA LABORDE P; SUBY JA; GUICHÓN RA; VELAZQUEZ N; BURRY L; PALACIO P; SEGURA M; IBAÑEZ A
Lugar:
Necochea, Argentina
Reunión:
Congreso; III Paleopathology Association Meeting in South America; 2009
Institución organizadora:
PPA
Resumen:
The Native-European contact process in Tierra del Fuego constitutes a complex phenomenon temporally as well spatially. In
2005, we started studying the health-illness process in the north of the Great Island of Tierra del Fuego at the end of the 19th
and beginning of the 20th century, specifically in the Salesian Mission La Candelaria (Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego,
Argentina). The first analyses from historic documents conducted by Casali (2008) suggested that tuberculosis was the
main cause of death among natives, and allows generating expectations about diet, activity, health and mobility. The aim of
this work is to present the bioarchaeological and paleopathological results obtained from human bone remains of the nine
individuals recovered in the fieldworks in 2009 in the sector superficie 1 of the salesian cemetery of La Candelaria, and
the two individuals recovered in earlier fieldworks. Moreover, some polinologic results obtained from sediment samples of
abdominal cavities are presented. The results of stable isotopes in two individuals agreed with the values available from
native populations of pre contact periods in the north of Tierra del Fuego. The paleopathological results showed lesions
attributed to unspecific infectious processes (periostitis), and systemic stress indicators (Harris´ lines, trabecular bone
alterations, hipoplasia of dental enamel, hyperostosis porotica, and criba orbitalia) possibly as a result of nutritionalmetabolic
disorders. Also, osteoarticular lesions were registered, principally in axial skeleton. Lesions of specific
infections, as tuberculosis and other respiratory pathologies, were not found.