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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
Diana Maul de Carvalho
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Paleoepidemiology of cribra orbitalia: Insights from early seventh millennium BP Con Co Ngua, Vietnam [PDF]
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2023 Abstract 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 health/disease impacts.
Kate Domett +2 more
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Missing data in bioarchaeology I: A review of the literature [PDF]
Am J Biol Anthropol, 2022 Abstract Objectives Missing data are a frequent and unavoidable challenge in bioarchaeological research, yet researchers seldom make explicit statements about the bias and inferential limitations that missing data introduce into their studies. There are no guidelines for best practices for the treatment or reporting of missing data.
Wissler A, Blevins K, Buikstra J.
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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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First Paleogenetic Evidence of Probable Syphilis and Treponematoses Cases in the Brazilian Colonial Period. [PDF]
Biomed Res Int, 2018 Despite interest in the origins of syphilis, paleopathological analysis has not provided answers, and paleogenetic diagnosis remains a challenge. Even venereal syphilis has low infectivity which means there are few circulating bacteria for most of the individual’s life.
Guedes L +5 more
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Paleopathology of human tuberculosis and the potential role of climate. [PDF]
Interdiscip Perspect Infect Dis, 2009 Both origin and evolution of tuberculosis and its pathogens (Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex) are not fully understood. The paleopathological investigation of human remains offers a unique insight into the molecular evolution and spread including correlative data of the environment. The molecular analysis of material from Egypt (3000–500 BC), Sudan (
Nerlich AG, Lösch S.
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Selectivity of Black Death mortality with respect to preexisting health [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008 Sharon Dewitte, James W Wood
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Assessing the association of skeletal indicators of stress with mean age‐at‐death in sub‐adults
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 182, Issue 3, Page 440-451, November 2023., 2023 A graphic representation of the factors associated with developing skeletal indcators with reference to prevalance of indicators in the medieval Gaelic population of Ballyhanna. Abstract Objectives The present study investigated the association of skeletal indicator of stress presence with mean age‐at‐death as a means of understanding whether commonly ...
Bronwyn Wyatt +3 more
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 182, Issue 3, Page 452-466, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Objectives This study explores the paleoepidemiology of the Black Death (1348–52 AD) mass graves from Hereford, England, via osteological analysis. Hereford plague mortality is evaluated in the local context of the medieval city and examined alongside other Black Death burials.
Emilia R. Franklin +2 more
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Survivorship and the second epidemiological transition in industrial‐era London
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 181, Issue 4, Page 646-652, August 2023., 2023 Survivorship curves with 95% confidence intervals for pre‐industrial versus industrial London. Abstract Objectives The second epidemiological transition describes a shift in predominant causes of death from infectious to degenerative (non‐communicable) diseases associated with the demographic transition from high to low levels of mortality and ...
Samantha L. Yaussy +2 more
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