High prevalence of adult and nonadult scurvy in an early agricultural transition site from Mainland Southeast Asia was associated with decreased survivorship.
Melandri VlokMarc F OxenhamKate DomettHiep Hoang TrinhTran Thi MinhMai Huong NguyenHirofumi MatsumuraHallie BuckleyPublished in: American journal of biological anthropology (2024)
The findings demonstrate that scurvy considerably decreased survivorship to older age categories. The degree of lesion remodeling, however, indicates that scurvy was not necessarily the direct cause of death but contributed to an overall disease burden that was ultimately fatal.