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Parasite infection in the silk-weaving district of Realejo in Granada (Spain) in the 17th–18th century

Parasitology
The district of Realejo in Granada, Spain, was a renown centre for the production of fine silk cloth from the medieval period onwards. During the excavation of a building on the south side of the square of Campo del Principe, two cesspits were identified
Ramón López-Gijón, Salvatore Duras, Sylvia Jiménez-Brobeil, Pablo L. Fernández-Romero, Amjad Suliman, Rosa Maroto-Benavides, Francisco Sánchez-Montes, Piers D. Mitchell   +7 more
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Taenia sp. in human burial from Kan River, East Siberia

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
We present an arhaeoparasitological analysis of a unique burial from the Neftprovod II burial ground in East Siberia, which dated from the Bronze Age. Analysis of a sediment sample from the sacral region of the pelvis revealed the presence of Taenia sp ...
Sergey Mikhailovich Slepchenko, Sergey Nikolaevich Ivanov, Anton Vasilevich Vybornov, Tsybankov Alexander Alekseevich, Slavinsky Vyacheslav Sergeyevich, Danil Nikolaevich Lysenko, Vyacheslav Evgenievich Matveev   +6 more
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Inca expansion and parasitism in the Lluta Valley: preliminary data

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2003
Assessing the impact of cultural change on parasitism has been a central goal in archaeoparasitology. The influence of civilization and the development of empires on parasitism has not been evaluated.
Santoro Calogero, Vinton Sheila Dorsey, Reinhard Karl J   +2 more
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Night soil fertilizer use and parasitic infections in ancient China: a preliminary study of agricultural practices, economic factors and disease ecology in the Song dynasty

Parasitology
This study examines the relationship between parasitic infections and agricultural innovations in China during the Song dynasty (960–1279 CE), particularly how the widespread use of night soil (human excrement) as fertilizer affected public health.
Chen Chen, Anthea Yu Xuan Lee, Edward Kien Yee Yapp, Hui-Yuan Yeh   +3 more
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Pathoecology of Chiribaya parasitism

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2003
The excavations of Chiribaya culture sites in the Osmore drainage of southern Peru focused on the recovery of information about prehistoric disease, including parasitism. The archaeologists excavated human, dog, guinea pig, and llama mummies.
Martinson Elizabeth, Reinhard Karl J, Buikstra Jane E, Cruz Katharina Dittmar de la   +3 more
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Archaeoparasitological Analysis of Samples from the Cultural Layer of Nadym Gorodok dated Back to the 14th-Late 18th Centuries [PDF]

The Korean Journal of Parasitology, 2019
An archaeoparasitological analysis of the soil samples from Nadym Gorodok site of Western Siberia has been carried out in this study. The archaeological site was dated as the 13 to 18th century, being characterized as permafrost region ensuring good preservation of ancient parasite eggs.
Slepchenko, Sergey Mikhailovich, Kardash, Oleg Viktorovich, Slavinsky, Vyacheslav Sergeyevich, Ivanov, Sergey Nikolaevich, Sergeyevna, Rakultseva Daria, Tsybankov, Alexander Alekseevich, Shin, Dong Hoon   +6 more
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MEDICAL ARCHAEOPARASITOLOGY: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE

Medical parasitology and parasitic diseases
The article is devoted to the description of the formation, goals and objectives of medical archaeoparasitology, the research methods used by it, the relationship with other sciences of this field, the importance of its results for understanding the evolution of parasitic diseases under the influence of population migration, host change, and climate ...
N.N. Krylov, V.P. Sergiev, L.F. Morozova, N.A. Turbabina, A.S. Anikina, I.V. Karpenko, E.N. Morozov   +6 more
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Parasites provide evidence for fish consumption among Iron Age Siberian pastoralists

Scientific Reports
The subsistence economies of prehistoric pastoralists of the Eurasian steppes have long been viewed through an oversimplified model of reliance on domesticated animals.
Sergey Slepchenko, Timur Sadykov, Daria Fomicheva, Jegor Blochin, Gino Caspari   +4 more
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Molecular archaeoparasitology as a novel tool for the study of trading and migration networks through history

, 2014
This project represents the first comprehensive study applying molecular and genetic methods to study historical contexts such as migration and trade based on human parasites. Using specially developed techniques, the study focused on parasites with minor symptoms which allowed the infected person to go about their daily business.
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Supplementary Information from Molecular archaeoparasitology identifies cultural changes in the Medieval Hanseatic trading centre of Lübeck

, 2018
Throughout history, humans have been afflicted by parasitic worms and eggs are readily detected in archaeological deposits. This study integrated parasitological and ancient DNA methods with a large sample set dating between Neolithic and Early Modern periods to explore the utility of molecular archaeoparasitology as a new approach to study the past ...
Flammer, Patrik G., Dellicour, Simon, G. Preston, Stephen, Rieger, Dirk, Warren, Sylvia, Tan, Cedric K. W., Nicholson, Rebecca, Přichystalová, Renáta, Bleicher, Niels, Wahl, Joachim, R. Faria, Nuno, G. Pybus, Oliver, Pollard, Mark, Smith, Adrian L.   +13 more
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