L’apport des techniques d’imagerie et de photographie à l’étude, la conservation et la diffusion des cas pathologiques en archéoanthropologie

Abstract

The considerable number of burials excavated and skeletons exhumed each year, mainly during preventives digs, provides a large number of pathological cases needing to be studied, preserved and disseminated. For several decades, medical imaging has been a major asset in establishing paleopathological diagnoses, and also offers an original medium for the dissemination and preservation of the different cases. The other complementary tool is photogrammetry, which allows the rapid dissemination of the information and data preservation by generating orthophotographs and three-dimensional models, which are also promotion documents. A medieval burial excavated in Gournay-sur-Marne in 2018, where the individual was suffering for several osteomyelitis, benefited for these treatments for the study of bone lesions, as well as during a promotion event (European Archaeology Days in June 2021 at the musée de l’Armée).

Keywords

• burials
• medical imaging
• photogrammetry
• osteomyelitis
• promotion
• disability