Book contents
- The Bioarchaeology of Cardiovascular Disease
- Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
- The Bioarchaeology of Cardiovascular Disease
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Bioarchaeology of Cardiovascular Disease
- 2 Exploring the Sources of Indirect Evidence for Cardiovascular Disease in Bioarchaeology
- Part I Evidence from Mummified Tissues
- Part II Cardiovascular Diseases Associated with Human Skeletal Remains
- 8 Calcified Structures as Potential Evidence of Atherosclerosis Associated with Human Skeletal Remains from Amara West, Nubia (1300–800 BCE)
- 9 Intracranial Atherosclerosis in Medieval Scandinavia
- 10 Abnormalities of the Vertebral Artery
- 11 A Heart of Stone
- 12 ‘Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence’
- Part III Contemporary Perspectives
- Index
- References
11 - A Heart of Stone
A Review of Constrictive Pericarditis and Other Calcified Tissues from the Pathologic–Anatomical Collection at the Narrenturm in Vienna, Austria
from Part II - Cardiovascular Diseases Associated with Human Skeletal Remains
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2023
Book contents
- The Bioarchaeology of Cardiovascular Disease
- Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
- The Bioarchaeology of Cardiovascular Disease
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Bioarchaeology of Cardiovascular Disease
- 2 Exploring the Sources of Indirect Evidence for Cardiovascular Disease in Bioarchaeology
- Part I Evidence from Mummified Tissues
- Part II Cardiovascular Diseases Associated with Human Skeletal Remains
- 8 Calcified Structures as Potential Evidence of Atherosclerosis Associated with Human Skeletal Remains from Amara West, Nubia (1300–800 BCE)
- 9 Intracranial Atherosclerosis in Medieval Scandinavia
- 10 Abnormalities of the Vertebral Artery
- 11 A Heart of Stone
- 12 ‘Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence’
- Part III Contemporary Perspectives
- Index
- References
Summary
The Pathologic–Anatomical Collection in Vienna, Austria, now housed in the Narrenturm (‘Lunatic Tower’, a mental health asylum built in the eighteenth century), offers a valuable reference collection for identifying calcified human tissue from archaeological contexts. This can be achieved through comparison of potential calcifications with documented pathological body parts that were collected from hospital patients for a teaching collection, mainly from the end of the eighteenth century until the mid-twentieth century.
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- The Bioarchaeology of Cardiovascular Disease , pp. 202 - 213Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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