Palaeoepidemiology in extinct vertebrate populations: factors influencing skeletal health in Jurassic marine reptiles [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Palaeoepidemiological studies related to palaeoecology are rare, but have the potential to provide information regarding ecosystem-level characteristics by measuring individual health.
Judith M. Pardo-Pérez +2 more
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Book Reviews : Palaeoepidemiology: the measure of disease in the human past [PDF]
Med Hist, 2010 Rebecca Gowland
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Palaeoepidemiology, literacy, and medical tradition among necropolis workmen in New Kingdom Egypt. [PDF]
Med Hist, 1991 We are fortunate in having a number of sources for reconstructing the epidemiology of occupational diseases in pharaonic Egypt and the religious, magical, and medical means of treatment available to workmen engaged in various projects and tasks.
Miller RL.
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The Children of the Reformation: Childhood Palaeoepidemiology in Britain, ad 1000–1700 [PDF]
Medieval Archaeology, 2014 CHILDHOOD IS A TIME of rapid biological growth and development, and a stage of the life course during which bodies are particularly sensitive to social and environmental stressors. As a consequence, events which may impact upon a child’s care and treatment can become physically embodied within their bones and teeth.
Bennjamin J. Penny-Mason +1 more
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Palaeoepidemiology of Schistosoma infection in mummies. [PDF]
BMJ, 1992 Miller RL +5 more
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Book Review : The past and present of leprosy: archaeological, historical, palaeopathological and clinical approaches. Proceedings of the International Congress on the Evolution and Palaeoepidemiology of the Infectious Diseases 3 (ICEPID), University of Bradford 26–31 July 1999 [PDF]
Med Hist, 2004 Astri Andresen
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Tuberculosis in Britain: its history and palaeoepidemiology [PDF]
Antropologia Portuguesa, 2002 This paper considers the evidence for tuberculosis in skeletal samples from Britain dating from the Romano-British (c. 4 t h century AD) to the post-Medieval periods (after the 16 t h century AD). Distribution patterns for the evidence are considered followed by a consideration of the origin of tuberculosis in Britain and its palaeoepidemiology ...
Charlotte A. Roberts
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Roy Lee Moodie (1880-1934) and the beginnings of palaeopathology. [PDF]
J Med Biogr, 2015 Roy Lee Moodie was a geologist whose interest in ancient disease was stimulated by his finding of pathological change in some of the fossils that he studied, including many from the Rancho La Brea site in California.
Waldron T.
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Broken noses for the gods: ritual battles in the Atacama Desert during the Tiwanaku period [PDF]
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006 The sample consists of 226 skulls from the Atacameño cemetery of Coyo Oriente (639-910 AD), associated with the Tiwanaku period. The authors analyzed signs of acute trauma typically associated with violence, and the results were 12% of men and 9.9% of ...
Andrea Lessa +1 more
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A palaeoepidemiological investigation of osteomata, with reference to medieval Poland [PDF]
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2020 AbstractThe osteoma, among other forms of benign neoplastic disease, has received little palaeopathological or palaeoepidemiological interest largely because of its asymptomatic nature. This is problematic because these tumours are regarded as common occurrences in bioarchaeological contexts, despite there being scant data to support these claims. This
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