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A Framework for Anemia Differential Diagnosis in Paleopathology Incorporating Metric Methods. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives This paper explores metric manifestations of anemia in crania undergoing growth and development using micro‐CT imaging. It proposes a framework for assigning a most‐likely diagnostic option for anemia, based on evaluating the parameters proposed in this study.
Morgan B, Langlois M, Schats R, van der Merwe AE, Ribot I, Waters-Rist A, Brickley MB.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Osteological Evidence of Possible Tuberculosis from the Early Medieval Age (6th–11th Century), Northern Italy

Heritage, 2023
We discuss the probable presence of tuberculosis in non-adults of a medieval rural community in northern Italy with a biocultural perspective. Before birth, mother and child have a closely interconnected relationship, as suggested by the role of ...
Omar Larentis, Caterina Pangrazzi, Enrica Tonina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tourism in the Time of Coronavirus. Fruition of the “Minor Heritage” through the Development of Bioarchaeological Sites—A Proposal

Heritage, 2021
The consequences of the coronavirus pandemic are and will continue to be devastating for the tourism sector, especially for the cultural one. It is necessary to reflect on the new strategies to be adopted to deal with the heavy losses that the world of ...
Marta Licata, Omar Larentis, Chiara Tesi, Roberta Fusco, Rosagemma Ciliberti   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paleopathology

Kazan medical journal, 2021
We can say, without fear of exaggeration, that modern pathology has been enriched by one interesting department, which has already given a lot of new things and will probably reveal even more in the field of our knowledge of diseases, their origin and development.
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Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-year-old Hominin, olduvai gorge, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2012
Meat-eating was an important factor affecting early hominin brain expansion, social organization and geographic movement. Stone tool butchery marks on ungulate fossils in several African archaeological assemblages demonstrate a significant level of ...
Agness Gidna, Audax Mabulla, Carmen Arriaza, Charles Musiba, David Uribelarrea, Doris Barboni, Enrique Baquedano, Fernando Diez-Martín, Fred H. Smith, Gail M. Ashley, Gonzalo Trancho, Henry T. Bunn, José Yravedra, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel Santonja, María del Sol Martínez-Ávila, Rebeca Barba, Travis Rayne Pickering   +17 more
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Joint diseases in animal paleopathology: Veterinary approach

Macedonian Veterinary Review, 2015
Animal paleopathology is not a very well known scientific discipline within veterinary science, but it has great importance for historical and archaeological investigations.
Oliver Stevanović, , Maciej Janeczek, , Aleksander Chrószcz, Nemanja Marković   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human, All Too Human: Differentiating Non-Human from Human Bones in Protohistoric Cremation Contexts from Northern Italy

Heritage, 2023
Differentiating cremated non-human bones from human ones in archaeological contexts is a challenging task. This analysis aims at proposing a rather solid criterion based on an osteoarchaeological sample.
Omar Larentis
doaj   +1 more source

Pathophysiology of Mummification

Journal of Biological Research, 2021
Italian mummies are a biological, historical, and cultural heritage of significant value. However, only in the past few years has this heritage been properly appreciated, quite recently if compared to the history of Paleopathology.
Ezio Fulcheri
doaj   +1 more source

Syphilis and cirrhosis: a lethal combination in a XIX century individual identified from the Medical Schools Collection at the University of Coimbra (Portugal)

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2010
Syphilis is a chronic infection that is categorized by a three-stage progression. The tertiary stage may affect bones and produce distinctive skull lesions called caries sicca.
Célia Lopes, Mary Lucas Powell, Ana Luísa Santos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Osteoporosis and nutrition – a paleopathological insight

Antropologia Portuguesa, 2016
The association of osteoporosis and nutrition has long been documented, and nutrition is acknowledged as a major risk factor for bone loss, affecting bone health in distinct ways.
Francisco Curate
doaj   +1 more source