Maternal deaths in medieval sweden: an osteological and life table analysis
- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Biosocial Science
- Vol. 19 (4) , 495-503
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000017120
Abstract
Summary: In a medieval population of Stockholm only three cases of maternal deaths were proved out of 330 burials of adult females, and only in one of the cases was a contracted pelvis found. However, life table analysis indicates a shorter life expectancy of females in the reproductive ages. This suggests a higher maternal mortality in the Middle Ages than in the 18th and 19th centuries in Sweden.Keywords
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