It provides the oldest skeletal evidence of leprosy
a museum in Pune has a collection of thousands of bones and skeletons excavated in India. Among them is a 4,000 year old skeleton of a man believed to be 37 years when he died. This skeleton was found buried at Balathal, about 40 km north-east of Udaipur in Rajasthan.
What sets it apart from other skeletons at the museum of the Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate Research Institute, is that it provides the oldest evidence of leprosy in human beings. The skeleton called specimen 1997-1 was analysed by anthropologists and biologists from Deccan College and from Appalachian State University, North Carolina, usa.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/specimen-1997-1
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/rajil-menon
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/epidemiological-studies
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/urbanisation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/leprosy
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rajasthan
