1999
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(199903)108:3<311::aid-ajpa6>3.0.co;2-d
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A prehistoric example of polydactyly from the Iron Age site of Simbusenga, Zambia

Abstract: Human burials, dated AD 1100-1500, were examined from the Iron Age site of Simbusenga, located some 35 miles northwest of Victoria Falls in Zambia. Pedal polydactyly was discovered in the fragmentary remains of a young adult of indeterminate sex aged 14-25. The preaxial form of polydactyly is indicated with bilateral involvement of the first metatarsals. There is incomplete hypoplastic duplication of both first metatarsals with broad heads for the metatarsal-phalangeal joints. No digital malformations were fou… Show more

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“…The vast majority of these come from the American Southwest, where cases have been reported from the sites of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (Barnes 1994); Pueblo de Las Humanas, Gran Quivira National Monument, New Mexico (Reed 1981:114–115); Sand Canyon Pueblo, Colorado (Kuckelman and Martin 2007); Schoolhouse Point Mound, Arizona (Regan et al 1996:810); and Tapia del Cerrito and Nuvakwewtaqa (Chavez Pass Ruin), Arizona (Case et al 2006). Additional archaeological cases are documented from the Iron Age site of Simbusenga, Zambia (Murphy 1999), from the Moe Kau a Ho‘oilo site in Hawai‘i (Han et al 1986), and most recently from the Inca site of Qotakalli in Cuzco, Peru (Valerie Andrushko, personal communication 2010).…”
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“…The vast majority of these come from the American Southwest, where cases have been reported from the sites of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (Barnes 1994); Pueblo de Las Humanas, Gran Quivira National Monument, New Mexico (Reed 1981:114–115); Sand Canyon Pueblo, Colorado (Kuckelman and Martin 2007); Schoolhouse Point Mound, Arizona (Regan et al 1996:810); and Tapia del Cerrito and Nuvakwewtaqa (Chavez Pass Ruin), Arizona (Case et al 2006). Additional archaeological cases are documented from the Iron Age site of Simbusenga, Zambia (Murphy 1999), from the Moe Kau a Ho‘oilo site in Hawai‘i (Han et al 1986), and most recently from the Inca site of Qotakalli in Cuzco, Peru (Valerie Andrushko, personal communication 2010).…”
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confidence: 99%