TY - JOUR AU - Martínez, Abel Fernando AU - Meléndez, Bernardo Francisco AU - Manrique, Fred Gustavo PY - 2010/06/24 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Bio-anthropology and paleopathology of the SO10-IX muisca mummy from Sátivanorte, Boyacá, Colombia JF - Colombia Medica JA - Colomb Med VL - 41 IS - 2 SE - Original Articles DO - UR - https://colombiamedica.univalle.edu.co/index.php/comedica/article/view/692 SP - 112-120 AB - <small><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction:</span> The practice of artificial mummification of human corpses in America was common to most Andean pre-Hispanic societies to which the Muiscas belonged. </span><br style="font-family: Arial;" /> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objective:</span> bio-anthropologically and paleopathologically characterize the SO10-IX mummy. </span><br style="font-family: Arial;" /> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Materials and methods: Case and field history graphic study with invasive and non-invasive techniques.</span><br style="font-family: Arial;" /> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Results:</span> Pre-Hispanic individual from the 14th century, male, 25 to 30 years of age. Macroscopic dental and osseous characteristics suggest it fitting the American Indian pattern. Evident absence of lower left member and right thigh, and the vertebral column reveals marked angular kyphosis, a pre-vertebral abscess in spindle shape, a lesion of vertebrate bodies T7 and T8, compatible with tuberculous spondylitis known as Pott’s disease. Also noted is the good state of the dentoalveolar complex. </span><br style="font-family: Arial;" /> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusions:</span> For the first time, there is evidence of tuberculosis, in pre-Hispanic times, in a Muisca mummy from the Andean plateau (high plains). Due to the multidisciplinary approach, the historical, geographic, paleopathologic, bio-anthropologic, cultural, and chronological contexts of the mummy were reconstructed, granting importance to this national heritage asset. Two facial reconstruction studies are proposed, preservation and manipulation, and a genetic analysis to confirm the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA. The ritual position of mummification caused difficulties in the study and measurement techniques. </span><br style="font-family: Arial;" /> </small> ER -