The case of scurvy from Singidunum

Abstract

. – In 2014, at the Belgrade Fortress, the bones of a female individual, aged 3–4 years were discovered in Grave no. 1, in sondage 2/2014. Dental and paleopathological analysis revealed traces of enamel hypoplasia on the teeth, while the bones of the cranial and postcranial skeleton showed traces of scurvy and tuberculosis .