The first English settlement in North America was established in 1607, at Jamestown, VA. The first casualty in Jamestown was a 15yo boy, specimen JR1225B, the apparent victim of an Indian attack. His excavated remains show an arrow head at the thigh, broken left collarbone, and anterior mandible with Ellis Type III fracture of mandibular left central incisor, with significant periapical pathological bone resorption. Drs. Levin and Pass have been contributing to a multidisciplinary study to elucidate the nature and chronology of odontogenic cause(s) of mandibular pathosis evident in JR1225B skeletal remains, and analyze contents of the root canal of a fractured mandibular left central incisor to assist assembling a corporeal and physiological history.
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