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ANTHROPOLOGY From the excavation material from the natural entry of the Cave of the Lakes, we find out that: a) man used it from the Neolithic Period, during all the First Meso-Helladic and up till the Hystero-Helladic period. b) the population consisted of young people, children, preadolescent and young adults. c) the population morphologically shows biological relation and continuance in the parents, and finally, d) the distribution of certain epigenetic traits in the bones, substantiates that between the members of the population existed endogamous relation. A high childhood mortality can be explained as a result of epidemiological outbreaks of the prehistoric periods combined with the low hygiene conditions and the severe malnutrition. The increased paleo-pathology of the bones and mostly the occurrence of a strong "cancellous hyperostosis" testify to the hard lifetime of these populations. |
