A prehistoric case of developmental defects of the spine in a young adult female from the Atacama Desert

Abstract

We report the case of a female individual from an archaeological site from the Late Intermediate Period (ca. 1000‐1400 AD) of the Azapa Valley in the far north of Chile. The spine presents several pathologies, including a triple hemivertebrae involving T7, T8 and T10 and the fusion of axis‐C3. We consider that these bone anomalies could be related to Klippel‐Feil syndrome.

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