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Book review of 'Palaeoepidemiology : the measure of disease in the human past' by Tony Waldron, Walnut Creek CA, Left Coast Press, 2007.

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Archaeology of Human Pathogens: Palaeopathological Appraisal of Palaeoepidemiology

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2008
The recent introduction of the new field of research of palaeomicrobiology has established new links between microbiological and archaeological sciences by using molecular techniques on archaeological material. However, although the material under study appears to be shared by both these fields, some of the methods, concepts, expectations and paradigms
Olivier Dutour
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Testing conditional independence in diagnostic palaeoepidemiology

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2005
AbstractLeprosy was a well‐known and dreaded disease in the Middle Ages. A substantial fraction of the adult population carried leprosy‐related lesions. Previous research analyzed the occurrence and implications of seven such lesions in samples of medieval skeletons. These analyses were carried out under the assumption of conditional independence among
Jesper L Boldsen
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Can the palaeoepidemiology of rickets during the industrialisation period in France be studied through bioarchaeological grey literature and French medico-historical literature of the 18th-early 20th centuries? Preliminary examination of a complex topic

International Journal of Paleopathology, 2021
This study explores whether data relating to rickets from the French medico-historical literature (FMHL) and bioarchaeological grey literature are useful in evaluating its epidemiology during the industrialisation of France. Unlike other European countries such as England, industrialisation in France was a slow and continuous process with two phases ...
Antony Colombo, Hélène Coqueugniot, Olivier Dutour   +2 more
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Palaeoepidemiology of infectious diseases using aDNA analyses: pros and cons

Bulletins Et Memoires De La Societe D'Anthropologie De Paris, 1998
Resume. — L'analyse de l'aDNA peut apporter plus d'information sur les prevalences des infections endemiques dans des anciennes populations que les etudes morphognostiques. Nous avons rassemble quelques arguments pour promouvoir de ce type d'approche.
Herrmann, Bernd, Hummel, Susanne
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Application of Kennedy's Classification of Edentulism in Palaeoepidemiology: Evidence From Three Early Medieval Necropolises From Serbia

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
ABSTRACT This study presents a palaeoepidemiological analysis of edentulism in an early medieval population from northern Serbia, using the Kennedy Classification system as a diagnostic tool. Drawing on data from three necropolises, Site 40—Potes Gornje Sajlovo, Čik, and Pionirska Ulica, located in the Bačka ...
Veda Mikasinovic, Ksenija Djukic, Ksenija Zelic   +2 more
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Palaeoepidemiology

2017
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Palaeoepidemiological Patterns of Trauma in a Medieval Nubian Skeletal Population

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 1997
Evidence of trauma was investigated in a well-preserved skeletal sample from the Medieval Sudanese Nubian site of Kulubnarti. The skeletal materials derive from two temporally over-lapping Christian cemeteries, dating from the sixth to circa the sixteenth century. The available sample consisted of the skeletons of 146 adults which were investigated for
LYNN KILGORE, ROBERT JURMAIN, DENNIS VAN GERVEN   +2 more
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