Infection, Disease, and Biosocial Processes at the End of the Indus Civilization
Figure 7
Severe rhinomaxillary infection is consistent with a diagnosis of leprosy.
These lesions include resorption of the anterior nasal spine, changes to the inferior nasal margin, and remodeling of the nasal septum in individual H.779 (a: ventral view of cranium; b:superior view of pyriform aperture and maxilla). Among other changes indicative of leprosy, individual H.306a demonstrates recession of the anterior alveolar bone to the level of the naso-palatine nerve, porosity along the margin of and remodeling of the pyriform aperture, porosity on the bony palate, zygoma, nasal and orbital processes of the maxilla (b: ventral view).