title: A likely cranial osteodystrophy (Paget's disease of bone) in a Precolumbian, Mesoamerican stone sculpture.
abstract: This short note illustrates facial and head features found in a stone sculpture of the ancient, Precolumbian period in a temple of the Mayan city of Copan (Honduras). The authors believe that this observation may support paleoanthropological evidence of Paget's disease of bone, an osteodystrophy described in the Mesoamerican Indian populations before the first millennium A.D.
authors.affiliation: Unit of Anthropometry and Constitutional Medicine, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Center for Sport and Exercise Medicine, Parma, Italy. roberto.toni@unipr.it.|Endocrine Division - Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. roberto.toni@unipr.it.
authors.forename: R
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5081-4753
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Toni
authors.affiliation: Endocrine Division - Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ceglia
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001851:Bone Diseases, Metabolic / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D007197:Indians, Central American; D010001:Osteitis Deformans / Q000473:pathology*; D012613:Sculpture / Q000266:history*; D012886:Skull / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: Osteodystrophy; Paget’s disease of bone; Skull