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Integrating New Prehistoric Palaeopathological Finds from Hungary. [PDF]

Animals (Basel), 2023
Gál E, Bartosiewicz L.
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Disability and Care in Late Medieval Lund, Sweden: An Analysis of Trauma and Intersecting Identities, Aided by Photogrammetric Digitization and Visualization

Open Archaeology
This article is a Bioarchaeology of Care and Disability focused analysis of an individual who suffered a severe fracture of the left knee in Late Medieval Lund, Scania (1300–1536 CE).
Nolan Blair, Fritz Sandra Tornberg, Derudas Paola, Dininno Domenica, Tornberg Anna   +4 more
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Héraïs, Kallô et les autres. Paléopathologie des textes et anthropologie du sexe autour des récits de transformation du genre dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine

UISPP Journal
Existe-t-il une patrimonialisation du sexe ? Nous sommes dépositaires de notre patrimoine génétique, qui code pour notre phénotype, notre enveloppe interne et externe, et donc forcément influe le regard qui sera porté sur nous.
Philippe Charlier
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Positive Diagnosis of Ancient Leprosy and Tuberculosis Using Ancient DNA and Lipid Biomarkers

Diversity, 2017
Diagnosis of leprosy and tuberculosis in archaeological material is most informative when based upon entire genomes. Ancient DNA (aDNA) is often degraded but amplification of specific fragments also provides reliable diagnoses. Cell wall lipid biomarkers
Helen D. Donoghue, G. Michael Taylor, Graham R. Stewart, Oona Y. -C. Lee, Houdini H. T. Wu, Gurdyal S. Besra, David E. Minnikin   +6 more
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Breathing time: a longue-durée multidisciplinary study of respiratory illnesses and airborne diseases in Switzerland (16th–21st century CE)

Homo
This research is the first of its kind to assess of the impact of respiratory illnesses and airborne diseases (acronymized as “RIAD” hereafter) on Swiss mortality in the long run, between the 16th and the 21st century CE.
Tobias Hofstetter, Aude Fauvel, Silke Grabherr, Negahnaz Moghaddam   +3 more
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A possible case of Crouzon syndrome in a female figurine from Bracara Augusta from the 2nd century CE

Antropologia Portuguesa
Artworks are not just objects of beauty but also historical documents that can reveal diseases unknown to ancient physicians, such as congenital disorders.
Maria do Sameiro Barroso
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Uncovering the Holocene roots of contemporary disease-scapes: bringing archaeology into One Health. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2023
Rayfield KM, Mychajliw AM, Singleton RR, Sholts SB, Hofman CA.   +4 more
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Sex and age distribution of the Hyperostosis frontalis interna (based on skulls analysis of traditional societies in Eurasia) [PDF]

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии
Hyperostosis frontalis interna is an overgrowth on the inner surface of the frontal bone [Hershkovitz et al., 1999]. HFI is accompanied by hormonal and metabolic disorders usually [Hershkovitz et al., 1999]. The rate of HFI in historical groups is low (1–
Kolyasnikova A.S.
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CT-scans of pathological cranial fragments from Barmaz II, Neolithic Switzerland: a differential diagnosis

UISPP Journal, 2019
Whilst undertaking a paleoepidemiological study of the neolithic and Bell Beaker culture populations of western Switzerland, a strange case was uncovered in the necropolis of Barmaz II.
Claudine Abegg, Jocelyne Desideri, Olivier Dutour, Marie Besse   +3 more
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The Mummy Explorer-a self-regulated open-access online teaching tool. [PDF]

Evol Med Public Health, 2023
Furtwängler A, Baumann C, Majander K, Wilkin S, Tomoum N, Rühli F, Jaeggi AV, Eppenberger P, Bender N, Schuenemann VJ.   +9 more
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