ИСТИНА

The study of ante-mortem trauma is a popular and important aspect of palaeopathological analysis. The majority of publications focus on a particular assemblage, skeletal element or type of fracture, with case studies of single individuals with multiple/unusual traumata being much rarer in the literature. This poster presents the results of the skeletal analysis of an adult male individual from the Bronze Age site of Sharahalsun, Russia, buried, uniquely, in a sitting position on a fully assembled wagon, who displayed evidence for multiple healed ante-mortem fractures. The mechanisms and possible etiologies of the fractures are presented, and a possible interpretation suggested: that the individual was involved in a single severe wagon accident a number of years before his death. The poster also details the presence of a number of activity-related skeletal changes, which may support the possibility that the individual was a wagon driver. Finally, the poster makes the suggestion that the unique burial position of the individual was a form of commemoration by the community of the survival and recovery of the individual from such a severe accident.This work was partly supported by the Russian humanitarian scientific fund, grant number 16-21-19000.