The frequency of CO among the sexes was not statistically significant. There was a very strong relationship between the age-at-death and incidence of CO, i.e., individuals with the lesion were dying much younger. Almost one-third of all analyzed individuals had signs of CO, including approximately 60% of the subadults.
Siler's and Gompertz-Makeham's parametric models of mortality as well as χ2 statistics were used to evaluate these relationships.
CO was correlated with sex, age-at-death, and three skeletal indicators of biological health: linear enamel hypoplasia, periostitis, and adult femur length as a proxy value for stature. The sample consisted of 208 individuals with sufficiently preserved orbits: 82 subadults and 122 adults.
The purpose of this work is to present an analysis of cribra orbitalia (CO) from the population of a medieval cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania, dated between the end of the 13th to the beginning of the 15th centuries.
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