The Alto Salaverry child: a case of anemia from the Peruvian preceramic.
Excavations during 1974 at the Peruvian Preceramic site of Alto Salaverry led to the discovery of a child's skeleton. The fragmentary skeleton exhibits cribra orbitalia, a pitting of the orbital roof associated with anemia. This specimen provides the first evidence of anemia in a population of the predominantly non-agricultural Peruvian Preceramic and extends the antiquity of the pathology among Precolumbian Peruvians.
D000740:Anemia / Q000266:history* / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D006666:History of Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007199:Indians, South American / Q000266:history*; D009915:Orbit / Q000473:pathology*; D010164:Paleopathology; D010568:Peru; D012886:Skull / Q000473:pathology