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Louse infestation of the Chiribaya Culture, Southern Peru: variation in prevalence by age and sex [PDF]
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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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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Paleoparasitology: the origin of human parasites
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2013 Parasitism is composed by three subsystems: the parasite, the host, and the environment. There are no organisms that cannot be parasitized. The relationship between a parasite and its host species most of the time do not result in damage or disease to ...
Adauto Araujo +4 more
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Cranial Age Assessment and Cranial Pathology from the Mesolithic-Neolithic Inhabitants of the Danube Gorges, Serbia. [PDF]
Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 2015 The data-set described here comprises cranial pathology data and cranial age assessment for 113 individuals from four Mesolithic-Neolithic sites in the Danube Gorges, Serbia.
Marija Radović +2 more
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Confounding factors in interpreting fracture frequencies in skeletal populations
AntropoWebzin, 2011 The lifestyle of past populations can be reconstructed with help of several skeletal indicators. One such indicator is trauma. Trauma can be used for inferring about daily activities, subsistence strategy, division of labor, occupational hazards as well ...
Lukáš Friedl
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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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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 215-228, January/February 2022., 2022 Abstract A wide number of factors can affect the structure of the bones in the foot. In bioarchaeology, few studies about foot anomalies include population comparisons and changes across time. We aimed to identify normal and pathological variability that affected the foot in the recent history of West Mediterranean populations. Thus, we analyzed change
Eduardo Saldías +6 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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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 267-275, January/February 2022., 2022 Abstract Blessed Egidio was a revered Catholic friar who lived in Basilicata (southern Italy) between the 15th and 16th centuries A.D. His natural mummy is preserved in the Mother Church of Laurenzana, the village where he lived. During the recent restoration and conservation of the relic, palaeopathological analysis was carried out.
Ruggero D'Anastasio +3 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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