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Bioarchaeology of women from Iron Age Lovas

Presented bioarchaeological and isotopic data is limited and quite scarce, however it provides valuable information on lifestyle, general health and diet of females from Iron Age Lovas. Three analysed individuals come from richly furnished graves suggesting their prominent socials status in the community. Although their average life-span was longer than that of majority of their contemporaries, they suffered from a series of pathologies suggesting severe episodes of physiological stress during their childhood but also prolonged activity-related stress caused by heavy labour in their adulthood. Demographic characteristics of the Lovas females are somewhat different from the rest of the known Iron Age individuals from the region. The available palaeopathological and isotopic data show similar picture for the males from Lovas, but also for other Iron Age individuals from the region indicating there was no significant difference in terms of general health and diet based on sex and/or geographic location.

Bioarchaeology, Iron Age, Syrmia, graves, women, pathology, isotopic data, health, diet

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