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First glimpse of infectious diseases in medieval and early modern Estonia based on human osteological material [PDF]
Eesti Arheoloogiaajakiri, 2023 This paper deals with infectious diseases reflected on human skeletal remains from the period of the Northern Crusades in Estonia, i.e. from the 13th until the end of the 18th century.
Martin Malve
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HHARP: The Historical Hospital Admission Records Project – a review
Internet Archaeology, 2018 Hospital records have frequently been used in epidemiological research (Kilgore et al. 2017; Rushton 2016), and in some cases palaeopathological research.
Cara Hirst
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First diagnosis of septic arthritis in a dinosaur [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Identification and interpretation of pathologies in the fossil record allows for unique insights into the life histories of extinct organisms. However, the rarity of such finds limits not only the sample size for palaeopathologic studies, but also the ...
Jennifer Anné +2 more
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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2022 Brucellosis, known as "Mediterranean fever", has been an endemic zoonosis in human societies, especially in rural and island environments, for thousands of years.
Avril Meffray +5 more
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Connecting palaeopathology and evolutionary medicine to cancer research: past and present
, 2022 Cancer has a significant impact on morbidity and mortality worldwide, with estimates reaching 18.1 million cases in 2018 alone. This chapter reviews the contributions of evolutionary medicine and palaeopathology to oncological research and addresses how ...
Marques, Carina +2 more
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Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2011 During geo-archaeological research on the slope where the source associated with the Essarois (Côte-d’Or) cult site is located, in the locality of La Cave, an anatomic votive offering of a human foot was discovered in the alluvial sedimentary deposits ...
Julien Curie +3 more
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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2002 Since the beginning of the 20th century, research into parasitic diseases has been carried out in the European and American scientific community. The application of the diagnostic methods of current medical coprology to increasingly varied archaeological
Stéphanie Harter, Françoise Bouchet
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Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 1999 This is a preliminary palaeopathology study of a sample of human skeletal remains from the first research field season at the Jaboticabeira II shellmound, in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Camila Storto +2 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Though archaeological and historical-document evidences for the cliff necropolises in ancient China were reported in literature, the bioarchaeological analysis for them is still absent.
Yan Zhang +4 more
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Osteoporosis and vertebral trabecular bone health: an historico-anthropological perspective
Anthropological Review, 2023 This brief review article aims to recapitulate the history of osteoporosis from the most ancient observations to the current clinical definition, by offering a perspective on trabecular bone health and degeneration, which has become of paramount ...
Francesco M. Galassi, Elena Varotto
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