The long and intimate association between humans and parasites through time
ParasitologyWhile the interaction between humans and their parasites is well studied today, taking a long view of infection throughout human evolution helps to place the current picture in context and identify trends in infection over time.
Piers D. Mitchell
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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America [PDF]
Lack of evidence has been the major obstacle to understanding trends and differences in human welfare over the millennia. This paper explains and applies methods that are obscure to most academics and essentially unknown to the general public.
Richard H. Steckel
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Violence indicators in Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina: The Regional Development Period from a regional perspective [PDF]
, 2014 Quebrada de Humahuaca (Jujuy, Argentina) has been extensively studied by archaeologists. Studies have been focused mainly on the Late Regional Development Period (1250 1430 AD), which has been defined as a time of social conflict.
Botta, Florencia Natalia +1 more
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ParasitologyThe district of Realejo in Granada, Spain, was a renown centre for the production of fine silk cloth from the medieval period onwards. During the excavation of a building on the south side of the square of Campo del Principe, two cesspits were identified
Ramón López-Gijón +7 more
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Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2017 The paper attempts to analyze the incidences of ear exostoses revealed in the skeletal remains of the Middle Bronze Age population of the Lower Volga region. In total, we have revealed 4 incidences of bone (skeletal) formations in the ear canal.
Pererva E.V., Dyachenko A.N.
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Trends in mortality from pulmonary tuberculosis before and after antibiotics in the Portuguese sanatorium Carlos Vasconcelos Porto (1918-1991): archival evidence and its paleopathological relevance [PDF]
, 2015 The comparative study of patients’ profiles and outcomes from pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), before and after the discovery of antibiotic therapy, using sanatoria archives is an unexplored approach in paleopathology.
Matos, Vítor M. J., Santos, Ana Luísa
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A case of syphilis with high bone arsenic concentration from early modern cemetery (Wroclaw, Poland)
Open Life Sciences, 2019 Venereal syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by Treponema pallidum – Gram-negative, slowly growing bacteria. The spread of the disease in the Old World was due to increased birth rate, urban population growth, migration and lack of ...
Dabrowski Pawel +11 more
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The Population of Kostroma in XVI–XVIII Centuries (anthropological research)
Поволжская археология, 2018 This paper presents the results of human remains study from the necropolis on Tekstilschiki street (Kostroma city, Russia), dated back to XVI–XVIII centuries.
Vasilyev Sergey V. +2 more
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 188, Issue 3, November 2025.
Amy L. Rector
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Human tuberculosis - an ancient disease, as elucidated by ancient microbial biomolecules [PDF]
, 2009 Tuberculosis is a major cause of death but infected people with effective immunity may remain healthy for years, suggesting long-term coexistence of host and pathogen.
Donoghue, HD
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