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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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Osteoporosis and paleopathology: a review [PDF]
, 2014 Osteoporosis is a complex and heterogeneous disorder, of multi-factor aetiology. It is the most frequent metabolic bone disorder, affecting an increasing number of post-menopausal women and aging individuals from both sexes.
Curate, Francisco
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Toward high-resolution population genomics using archaeological samples [PDF]
, 2016 The term ‘ancient DNA’ (aDNA) is coming of age, with over 1,200 hits in the PubMed database, beginning in the early 1980s with the studies of ‘molecular paleontology’.
Alexander S. Mikheyev +24 more
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 185, Issue 3, November 2024.Abstract Objectives Intersectionality posits that multiple levels of marginalization interact to produce patterns of frailty and mortality, both today and in the past. To investigate how mortality during industrialization was selective with respect to sex and socioeconomic status (SES), this study analyzes data from four burial grounds dated to the ...
Samantha L. Yaussy
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Discovery of the Principal Cystic Fibrosis Mutation (F508del) in Ancient DNA from Iron Age Europeans [PDF]
, 2007 The most common, life-threatening autosomal recessive disease of Europeans and Euro-Americans, cystic fibrosis (CF), occurs predominately in patients with the F508del mutation.1 Although F508del is currently detectable as a single allele in 1/30-1/40 ...
Cedric Le Marechal +4 more
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Cranial vault trauma and selective mortality in medieval to early modern Denmark [PDF]
, 2015 Significance Neurocranial fractures and their aftermath took a toll on people in premodern societies, much like today. Archaeological information on skeletal trauma, however, typically consists of mere tallies of injuries, much like other ...
Boldsen, Jesper L +2 more
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Volume Fourteen Table of Contents [PDF]
, 1978 Table of contents for MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly, 1978, Volume ...
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Better a Broader Diagnosis Than a Misdiagnosis: The Study of a Neoplastic Condition in a Male Individual who Died in Early 20th Century (Coimbra, Portugal) [PDF]
, 2013 The paleopathological record of neoplastic conditions in the past is considered scarce. The detection of tumours in ancient populations is hindered by the quality and quantity of signs visible on the skeleton, the methodological approach, the ...
Cunha, Eugénia +2 more
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 185, Issue 2, October 2024.Abstract Objectives The osteological paradox recognizes that the presence of lesions is not always directly related with increased mortality. When combined with the clinical, historical, and epidemiological literature on scurvy, survivorship analysis, a form of statistical analysis to assess the relationship between the presence of diseases in the ...
Melandri Vlok +7 more
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 184, Issue 1, May 2024.Landmarks on the skull that were used in this study. Abstract Objectives Historical evidence from 18th‐ and 19th‐century England suggests that industrialization's impacts on health were largely negative, especially among marginalized groups. However, available documentary evidence is often biased toward adult men and rarely sheds light on the ...
Samantha L. Yaussy
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