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The State and Future of Paleoepidemiology
2003Abstract The study of prehistoric pathogens and the evolution of general health (Cohen 1989) calls attention to a long-term pattern of interaction between human behavior and pathogens which demonstrates the profound importance of human social and ecological change on disease organisms.
Mark Nathan Cohen, Gillian Crane-Kramer
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Paleoepidemiology of vertebral degenerative disease in a Pre‐Columbian Muisca series from Colombia
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2008 AbstractMajor manifestations of vertebral degenerative joint disease were observed on a Pre‐Columbian Muisca series from the Soacha Cemetery (11th to 13th centuries) Colombia, South America. In total, 1,646 vertebrae of 83 individuals were examined. Osteophytes, vertebral body joint surface contour change (“lipping”), and vertebral body pitting were ...
Rojas-Sepulveda, Claudia +2 more
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International Journal of Paleopathology, 2019
To document sacral spina bifida occulta (SSB0) prevalence in a population sample from the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, and address methodological issues in recording and quantifying SSBO variations.442 adult sacra from two temporally disjunct samples from the same deme traversing the 3rd intermediate (TIP) and the Roman Periods.Sacra were scored for SSBO ...
Casey L Kirkpatrick
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To document sacral spina bifida occulta (SSB0) prevalence in a population sample from the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, and address methodological issues in recording and quantifying SSBO variations.442 adult sacra from two temporally disjunct samples from the same deme traversing the 3rd intermediate (TIP) and the Roman Periods.Sacra were scored for SSBO ...
Casey L Kirkpatrick
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Porotic Hyperostosis and Paleoepidemiology: A Forensic Perspective on Anemia among the Ancient Maya
American Anthropologist, 1998 Porotic lesions caused by childhood anemia are commonly found on ancient Maya crania and have been cited as evidence for extremely poor nutrition during the Classic Period. We reconsider this characterization in the light of recent data on childhood anemia in rural Guatemala and the prevalence of porotic hyperostosis in crania of forensic skeletal ...
Lori E. Wright, Francisco Chew
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American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2014
ABSTRACTBioarcheology has made tremendous strides since the subdiscipline's inception, subsequent syntheses, the standardization of data collection methods, and analytical advances ranging from molecular analyses through age‐estimation and biodistance.
Jeremy J Wilson
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ABSTRACTBioarcheology has made tremendous strides since the subdiscipline's inception, subsequent syntheses, the standardization of data collection methods, and analytical advances ranging from molecular analyses through age‐estimation and biodistance.
Jeremy J Wilson
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Life not death: Epidemiology from skeletons
International Journal of Paleopathology, 2017 Analytically sophisticated paleoepidemiology is a relatively new development in the characterization of past life experiences. It is based on sound paleopathological observations, accurate age-at-death estimates, an explicit engagement with the nature of
George R Milner
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Head Louse Paleoepidemiology in the Osmore River Valley, Southern Peru
Journal of Parasitology, 2023Recent studies of louse ectoparasites from mummies have developed robust data sets that allow a true epidemiological approach to the prehistory of louse parasitism. One epidemiological principle is that the binomial of overdispersion is normally negative, meaning that in a host population, parasites are aggregated in a few individuals.
Karl, Reinhard +5 more
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American Journal of Human Biology, 2015 Objectives: Clinical prevalence of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is high among modern indigenous populations of North America, yet no systematic study of the paleoepidemiology of this group exists.
Samantha H. Blatt, Blatt, Samantha H.
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International Journal of Paleopathology, 2022
The aim of this paper is to evaluate a case of osteoma of the zygomatic bone in a post-medieval individual in the context of a paleoepidemiological approach.Forty-five skulls from the plague cemetery of Alghero (Sardinia, Italy), dating back to the end of the 16th century, were evaluated for the presence of osteomata on the outer surface of the cranial
Giuffra Valentina +3 more
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate a case of osteoma of the zygomatic bone in a post-medieval individual in the context of a paleoepidemiological approach.Forty-five skulls from the plague cemetery of Alghero (Sardinia, Italy), dating back to the end of the 16th century, were evaluated for the presence of osteomata on the outer surface of the cranial
Giuffra Valentina +3 more
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Bioarchaeology International, 2021
The processes of human mobility have been well demonstrated to influence the spread of infectious disease globally in the present and the past. However, to date, paleoepidemiological research has focused more on factors of residential mobility and population density as drivers for epidemiological shifts in prehistoric infectious disease patterns.
Melandri Vlok, Hallie Buckley
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The processes of human mobility have been well demonstrated to influence the spread of infectious disease globally in the present and the past. However, to date, paleoepidemiological research has focused more on factors of residential mobility and population density as drivers for epidemiological shifts in prehistoric infectious disease patterns.
Melandri Vlok, Hallie Buckley
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