A Case of Ancient Bladder Stones from Oluz Hoyuk, Amasya, Turkey

ÖZDEMİR K., Akyol A. A., ERDAL Y. S.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY, vol.25, no.6, pp.827-837, 2015 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 25 Issue: 6
  • Publication Date: 2015
  • Doi Number: 10.1002/oa.2349
  • Journal Name: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.827-837
  • Keywords: Anatolia, archaeological bladder stone, Ca/P calculus, palaeopathology, urolithiasis, DIFFERENTIAL-DIAGNOSIS, URINARY CALCULI, AGE ESTIMATION, PHASE-ANALYSIS, SKELETAL AGE, UROLITHIASIS, SPECTROSCOPY, ANATOLIA, CHILDREN, DISEASE
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

A biological object was recovered from the pelvic region of an adult woman coded to SK13 unearthed from Oluz Hoyuk in Amasya, Turkey. The skeleton was dated to the medieval period on the basis of the burial customs and the calibrated C-14 dates. The find was identified as a bladder stone on morphological, radiographic and chemo-analytical grounds with the help of X-ray diffraction, polarised energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, confocal Raman spectroscopy, and microscopic techniques. The mineralogical composition of urinary stone was found to be as calcium phosphate (apatite). Bladder stone disease is endemic in poor agricultural regions where the typical diet is mostly based on grain carbohydrate consumption with scarce intake of animal protein. Copyright (C) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.