And, speaking of rickets…
Some of the usual weird speculation based on nothing, though.
“Vitamin D deficiency shouldn’t be a problem for anyone exposed to a rural, outdoor lifestyle, so there must have been particular circumstances that restricted this woman’s access to sunlight as a child,” he said.
“It’s most likely she either wore a costume that covered her body or constantly remained indoors, but whether this was because she held a religious role, suffered from illness or was a domestic slave, we will probably never know.”
There are a number of conditions that make people have a hard time synthesizing/using it and/or need more than usual. (Way up in Scotland…) The only person I have known who had rickets back home at a much lower latitude, it was a case like that. Pretty much ruling out celiac here, in spite of high prevalence there now, since that seems to be related to getting gluten-containing grains from around the Mediterranean relatively late in a marginal climate for growing them. But, there are plenty of other possibilities.
But, while they may actually know very little about how people were living in that time and place? It’s apparently much more interesting to speculate about weird religious roles that keep you indoors/heavily covered up from childhood, or child slaves who don’t get to go outside. 0_o
In response to a unique finding, no less. Somehow some type of unusual medical condition seems more likely, unless you really enjoy the idea of social setups that would give you the other speculative causes. In the absence of any actual evidence that people might have been living like that.