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This paper presents preliminary results of an anthropological analysis of the osteological material from six burials discovered during the excavations of Mukoše site near Goriš in 2020. Altogether six skeletons were found: 3 adult males (40 to 65 years of age) and 3 subadults up to the age of 10. Pathological changes found in the male skeletons are related to harsh living conditions and longer life span (degenerative osteoarthritis, Schmorl’s nodes). Given the greater age-at-death in the sample, the latter interpretation is more probable. In the subadult skeleton from grave 3 healed cribra orbitalia was observed. The male skull from grave 1, as well as the additional skull found in the same grave, show possible leprotic changes, but additional analysis (pathogen DNA analysis) is needed to confirm (or dismiss) the infection with certainty.

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