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Paleopathology of brown bears (Ursus
arctos, L. 1758) from
Liptovská Mara, Northern Slovakia |
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Aleksander Chrószcz1*, Maciej Janeczek1, Edyta
Pasicka1, Zora Bielichová2, Zbigniew Zawada3
Joanna Klećkowska-Nawrot1 and Agnieszka Szarek1
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1Wroclaw
University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary
Medcicine, Department of Biostructure and Animal Physiology, ul
Kożuchowska 1/3, 51-631 Wrocław, Poland; 2Institute of
Archaeology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Akademická 2, 94921 Nitra,
Slovakia; 3University of Zielona Góra, Faculty of Biology,
Natural Museum, ul Szafrana 1, Zielona Góra
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Abstract |
During the archaeozoological investigations in Liptovská Mara, 13 bones
belonged to brown bear skeleton were identified. The materials were
analysed macroscopically in order to determine the presence of the
pathological bone changes. Moreover, X-ray imagination and microscopical
analysis of the dental root cross-sections were done. The age of animal
was estimated to 10-15 years. The pathological changes in periodontal
area (chronic periodontitis) and in the metacarpal bones (hypertrophic
bone formations) were described. According to accessible literature,
archaeological and archaeozoological investigations results in the
above-mentioned site, the bears from Liptovská Mara were killed, because
of their potential attacks on domestic animals herds.
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Keywords:
brown bear, Ursus arctos,
paleopathology, archaeozoology, teeth |
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To cite this article:
Chroszcz A,
M Janeczek, E Pasicka, Z Miklikova, Z Zawada, J Kleckowska-Nawrot and A
Szarek. 2014.
Paleopathology of brown bears (Ursus
arctos, L. 1758) from Liptovská Mara,
Northern
Slovakia.
Res.
Opin. Anim. Vet. Sci., 4(1), 35-39. |
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