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Anthropological Review, 2016 This paper considers the discipline of palaeopathology, how it has developed, how it is studied, and what limitations present challenges to analysis.
Roberts Charlotte Ann
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Soft Tissue Tumors in Palaeopathology: A Review [PDF]
Pathobiology, 2012 <b><i>Objective:</i></b> To perform a review of soft tissue tumors in palaeopathology. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> Examination of palaeopathological literature. <b><i>Results:</i></b> Up to now, observations of neoplastic soft tissue lesions in mummified remains are limited to 15 cases,
FORNACIARI, GINO, GIUFFRA, VALENTINA
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Internet Archaeology, 2006 In recent years the impact of animal disease on human societies has had an extremely high profile, with the spread of diseases such as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and foot and mouth among animal populations, as well as the transmission of ...
Stephanie Vann, Richard Thomas
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Injuries in deep time: interpreting competitive behaviours in extinct reptiles via palaeopathology. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT For over a century, palaeopathology has been used as a tool for understanding evolution, disease in past communities and populations, and to interpret behaviour of extinct taxa. Physical traumas in particular have frequently been the justification for interpretations about aggressive and even competitive behaviours in extinct taxa.
Scott M, Gamble JA, Brown CM, Brink KS.
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Developmental, evolutionary, and behavioural perspectives on oral health
, 2022 OF THE BOOK: Evolutionary medicine has been steadily gaining recognition, not only in modern clinical research and practice, but also in bioarchaeology (the study of archaeological human remains) and especially its sub-discipline, palaeopathology.
Warinner, Christina +3 more
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Palaeopathology of sub-adults from Gonur-Depe (Turkmenistan)
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2016 The palaeopathological study of sub-adult sample comprising 215 individuals from Gonur-depe Bronze Age site (Bactria-Margiana archaeological complex, Turkmenistan) has shown predominance of dental diseases and indicators of anemia compared to other ...
Kufterin V.V.
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Book review: Anne L. Grauer (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2023 This edited volume by Grauer and colleagues marks an update on the state of paleopathology as a field of study. The intent of this handbook is not to assist in the identification of pathological conditions and differential diagnoses, a focus already well
Robert J. Stark
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Osteopathology and insect traces in the Australopithecus africanus skeleton StW 431
South African Journal of Science, 2017 We present the first application of high-resolution micro computed tomography in an analysis of both the internal and external morphology of the lumbar region of StW 431 – a hominin skeleton recovered from Member 4 infill of the Sterkfontein Caves (South
Edward J. Odes +6 more
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Maladie hyperostosique et maladie goutteuse, une diathèse familiale en Normandie : Thaon, Calvados
Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2007 The architectural analysis and the complete archaeological survey of the old Saint Pierre parish church in Thaon (Calvados, France), dated to between the 7th and the 18th centuries, are in progress.
Joël Blondiaux +4 more
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Anthropological Review, 2023 In this article a case of spina bifida sacralis occulta (SBSO) from the Pozzanghera necropolis of the ancient Greek colony of Leontinoi (Sicily) and archaeologically dated to the 6th–4th century BC is morphologically analysed and discussed.
Sebastiano Melintenda +6 more
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