It is in southern Italy, on the troglodytic site of the Grotta del Romito, that an exceptional burial dating from the Upper Paleolithic was discovered in 1963. For more than sixty years, the extreme small size of one of the individuals has remained unexplained. Recent genetic analyses have finally made it possible to make the oldest ever established diagnosis: an acromesomelic dysplasia of the Maroteal type, a very rare bone disease responsible …
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It is in southern Italy, on the troglodytic site of the Grotta del Romito, that an exceptional burial dating from the Upper Paleolithic was discovered in 1963. For more than sixty years, the extreme small size of one of the individuals has remained unexplained. Recent genetic analyses have finally made it possible to make the oldest ever established diagnosis: an acromesomelic dysplasia of the Maroteal type, a very rare bone disease responsible …