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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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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Model-based analysis of an outbreak of bubonic plague in Cairo in 1801 [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2017 Bubonic plague has caused three deadly pandemics in human history: from the mid-sixth to mid-eighth century, from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-eighteenth century and from the end of the nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century.
Xavier Didelot +2 more
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Palaeoepidemiology of Schistosoma infection in mummies. [PDF]
BMJ: British Medical Journal, 1992 George J Armelagos +2 more
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Book Reviews : Palaeoepidemiology: the measure of disease in the human past [PDF]
Med Hist, 2010 Gowland, R.L.
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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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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
Thomas Siek +4 more
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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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Une nouvelle méthode de quantification des réactions périostées en paléopathologie : l’indice pondéré d’atteinte périostée (IPAP) [PDF]
Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2006 In order to evaluate the level of periosteal reaction on an isolated bone, an affected individual or an ancient population, we propose a new quantification method, taking into account simultaneously (i) the degree of periosteal reaction (Periosteal ...
Micheline Lé +3 more
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Palaeoepidemiology, literacy, and medical tradition among necropolis workmen in New Kingdom Egypt. [PDF]
Med Hist, 1991 Miller RL.
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