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Palaeopathological survey of a population of Mapusaurus (Theropoda: Carcharodontosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous Huincul Formation, Argentina. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Paleoepidemiology (the study of disease and trauma in prehistoric populations) provides insight into the distribution of disease and can have implications for interpreting behavior in extinct organisms.
Phil R Bell, Rodolfo A Coria
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Paleoepidemiology: is there a case to answer?
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2003 Paleopathology is the study of disease, physiological disruptions and impairment in the past. After two centuries of mainly descriptive studies, efforts are being made towards better methodological approaches to the study of diseases in human populations
Sheila MF Mendonça de Souza +2 more
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Recovering parasites from mummies and coprolites: an epidemiological approach. [PDF]
Parasit Vectors, 2018 In the field of archaeological parasitology, researchers have long documented the distribution of parasites in archaeological time and space through the analysis of coprolites and human remains.
Camacho M +4 more
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2023 OBJECTIVES We test the hypothesis that the condition(s) leading to the development of cribra orbitalia at Con Co Ngua, an early seventh millennium sedentary foraging community in Vietnam, effectively reduced the resilience of the population to subsequent
Tianyi Wang +8 more
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VESTNIK ARHEOLOGII ANTROPOLOGII I ETNOGRAFII, 2022 Spina bifida is a developmental anomaly that is thought to be caused by a combination of hereditary and en-vironmental factors. Though the most significant association was found with the folic acid deficit during early em-bryogenesis, numerous genetic ...
M. Karapetian
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The Paleoepidemiology of American Trypasonomiasis (Chagas disease)
Journal of Biological Research, 2021 Ancient DNA methodology was applied to extract and amplify a segment of kinetoplast DNA of Trypanosoma cruzi in soft tissue specimens from about 300 spontaneously mummified human bodies from the Atacama Desert in northern Chile and southern Peru.
Wilmar Salo +5 more
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Studies on protozoa in ancient remains - A Review
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2013 Paleoparasitological research has made important contributions to the understanding of parasite evolution and ecology. Although parasitic protozoa exhibit a worldwide distribution, recovering these organisms from an archaeological context is still ...
Liesbeth Frías +2 more
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La paléoépidémiologie intégrative
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2022 Infectious paleoepidemiology is a field of study that has received little attention in recent years. However, the restitution of infectious environments specific to ancient populations and the apprehension of infections’ impact on their health status are
Avril Meffray +2 more
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Zoonoses and their traces in ancient genomes – a possible indicator for ancient life-style changes?
Journal of Medical Science, 2020 Humans are constantly exposed to health risks inherent to the environment in which they live, thereby including non-human fauna. Zoonoses are infectious diseases caused by agents such as bacteria, parasites, or viruses being transmitted to humans from ...
Dawid Leciej +2 more
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Louse infestation of the Chiribaya Culture, Southern Peru: variation in prevalence by age and sex
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2003 In order to improve the interpretive potential of archaeoparasitology, it is important to demonstrate that the epidemiology of ancient parasites is comparable to that of modern parasites. Once this is demonstrated, then we can be secure that the evidence
Karl J Reinhard, Jane Buikstra
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