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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">nsc</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Archaeology, Ethnology &amp; Anthropology of Eurasia</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1563-0110</issn><publisher><publisher-name>IAET SB RAS</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17746/1563-0110.2023.51.4.135-141</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">nsc-1772</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>ANTHROPOLOGY AND PALEOGENETICS</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>A Case of Surgical Treatment of Lower Molars in a Mesolithic Sample from a Cemetery on the Yuzhny Oleniy Ostrov, Karelia, Russia</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7981-161X</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Zubova</surname><given-names>A. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Senior Researcher, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Researcher, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences.</p><p>Universitetskaya nab. 3, St. Petersburg, 199034; Akademika Lavrentieva Pr. 17, Novosibirsk, 630090</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">zubova_al@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4046-1915</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Pikhur</surname><given-names>O. L.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Leading Researcher, St. Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology; Associate Professor, Kursk State Medical University.</p><p>Dinamo Pr. 3, St. Petersburg, 197110; K. Marksa 3, Kursk, 305041</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">pol0012@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1748-2686</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Moiseyev</surname><given-names>V. G.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Senior Researcher, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences.</p><p>Universitetskaya nab. 3, St. Petersburg, 199034</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">vmoiseyev@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0964-2611</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Malyutina</surname><given-names>A. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Junior Researcher, Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences.</p><p>Dvortsovaya nab. 18, St. Petersburg, 191186</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">kostylanya@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-4"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0786-5683</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Obodovskiy</surname><given-names>A. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Teaching Assistant, St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”.</p><p>Professora Popova 5, St. Petersburg, 197022</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">obodovsky@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-5"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kalmina</surname><given-names>O. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Associate Professor, Penza State University.</p><p>Krasnaya 40, Penza, 440026</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">okalmina@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-6"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-2"><institution>St. Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology; Kursk State Medical University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-3"><institution>Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-4"><institution>Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-5"><institution>St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-6"><institution>Penza State University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2023</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>03</day><month>01</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><volume>51</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>135</fpage><lpage>141</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Zubova A.V., Pikhur O.L., Moiseyev V.G., Malyutina A.A., Obodovskiy A.V., Kalmina O.A., 2024</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Zubova A.V., Pikhur O.L., Moiseyev V.G., Malyutina A.A., Obodovskiy A.V., Kalmina O.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Zubova A.V., Pikhur O.L., Moiseyev V.G., Malyutina A.A., Obodovskiy A.V., Kalmina O.A.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1772">https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1772</self-uri><abstract><p>Here, we present the earliest case of surgical treatment of mandibular permanent molars known in Northern Eurasia. It concerns an aged woman buried at a Mesolithic cemetery on the Yuzhny Oleniy Ostrov (Island) in Lake Onega, southern Karelia, 8250–8050 cal BP. Our objective was to reconstruct the technology of surgical intervention, and to diagnose and describe the underlying condition. To do this, we carried out an examination of teeth and bone tissues of the upper and lower jaws and a traceological analysis of identified lesions. As we found, in the last few months of her life, the woman underwent several dental operations, including the extraction of the lower left third molar and, in a stepwise fashion, of fragments of the distal part of crown and lingual part of the distal root of the lower right first molar. The first operation was successful—the woman survived for at least two months after it had been performed. The second operation was also successfully performed at least two months before death, likely immediately after the trauma. The mesial part of the crown was removed just before death. No ancient cases where fragments of an injured tooth were removed are known to us. The removal of the lower third molar can be compared only with the earliest previously known case, described in a sample from the Pucará de Tilcara fortress in Northern Argentina (15th–16th centuries AD). Indications for surgery partly coincide in both cases, and include complications of apical periodontitis and the development of osteomyelitis. However, the technology of surgery and its logistics are different.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Mesolithic</kwd><kwd>tooth extraction</kwd><kwd>osteomyelitis</kwd><kwd>paleopathology</kwd><kwd>septic cavernous sinus thrombosis</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">This study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Project No. 21-18-00376.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Alt K.W., Pichler S.L. 1998 Artificial modifications of human teeth. In Dental Anthropology: Fundamentals, Limits and Prospects, K.W. Alt, F.W. Rösing, M. Teschler-Nicola (eds.). Wien: Springer, pp. 387–415.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Alt K.W., Pichler S.L. 1998 Artificial modifications of human teeth. In Dental Anthropology: Fundamentals, Limits and Prospects, K.W. Alt, F.W. Rösing, M. 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