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Stress disease and ancestry of Mafikeng Second Anglo-Boer War skeletons
Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/65864 Stress disease and ancestry of Mafikeng Second Anglo-Boer War skeletons Steyn, Maryna syvanderwalt@gmail.com Van der Walt, Stephany Yvonne UCTD Second Anglo-Boer War Anatomy enamel hyperplasia dental caries ancestry function analysis Health sciences theses SDG-03 SDG-03: Good health and well-being Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2017. Records exist of several Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) cemeteries around Mafikeng, North-West Province, South Africa. This study involves the Magogwe cemetery, situated roughly 1 km south of the Mafikeng concentration camp and the larger camp cemetery at the Lotlamoreng Nature Reserve. The Magogwe cemetery contains 236 marked graves but records of the origin of the cemetery are unclear. The Forensic Anthropology Research Centre at the University of Pretoria, under the mandate of the Heritage Foundation was asked to relocate the Magogwe cemetery. This would include exhumation, analyses and reburial of all individuals. Only 21 non-adults were exhumed and analysed before the project was cut short due to tensions surrounding the true ancestral origins of the individuals buried at this cemetery. The initial aim of this study was to assess the health status of all the individuals who had been buried in the Magogwe cemetery. It was attempted to determine whether pre-war malnourishment and poverty contributed to the high fatalities during the war, especially in children. A supporting study was done, using dental casts of deciduous dentition to metrically estimate ancestry using multiple discriminant function analysis of the mesiodistal and buccolingual measurements of deciduous dentition. All 21 graves contained evidence of coffins. The buried children were fully dressed or wrapped in cloth, some wearing nappies. All individuals were non-adults including 12 infants (0-1 years), 5 children (3-7 years), 3 juveniles (7-10/12 years) and 1 adolescent (10/12-18 years). Signs of nonspecific stress such as dental caries and enamel hypoplasia were identified. Though the results are preliminary and the sample small there is evidence that the stress experienced by these individuals was acute around the time of death. The discriminant functions were not suitable for use on the Magogwe sample. Therefore, the ancestry of the individuals buried at Anglo-Boer War cemetery in Magogwe, Mafikeng remains unclear. em2025 Anatomy MSc Unrestricted SDG-03: Good health and well-being 2018-07-25T06:53:37Z 2018-07-25T06:53:37Z 2018/04/13 2017 Dissertation Van der Walt, S 2017, Stress disease and ancestry of Mafikeng Second Anglo-Boer War skeletons, MSc Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65864> A2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65864 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Second Anglo-Boer War Anatomy enamel hyperplasia dental caries ancestry function analysis Health sciences theses SDG-03 SDG-03: Good health and well-being Stress disease and ancestry of Mafikeng Second Anglo-Boer War skeletons |
| title | Stress disease and ancestry of Mafikeng Second Anglo-Boer War skeletons |
| title_full | Stress disease and ancestry of Mafikeng Second Anglo-Boer War skeletons |
| title_fullStr | Stress disease and ancestry of Mafikeng Second Anglo-Boer War skeletons |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stress disease and ancestry of Mafikeng Second Anglo-Boer War skeletons |
| title_short | Stress disease and ancestry of Mafikeng Second Anglo-Boer War skeletons |
| title_sort | stress disease and ancestry of mafikeng second anglo boer war skeletons |
| topic | UCTD Second Anglo-Boer War Anatomy enamel hyperplasia dental caries ancestry function analysis Health sciences theses SDG-03 SDG-03: Good health and well-being |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65864 |