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

open access: yesAm 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   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-year-old Hominin, olduvai gorge, Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +17 more
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Joint diseases in animal paleopathology: Veterinary approach

open access: yesMacedonian 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,   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pathophysiology of Mummification

open access: yesJournal 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)

open access: yesMemorias 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Osteoporosis and nutrition – a paleopathological insight

open access: yesAntropologia 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

Radiographic Technique for Archaeological Human Dry Bones: a scoping review

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2022
Within archaeological research, radiography has been used with human dry bones to diagnose pathologies, demonstrate trauma and assist age estimation through dentition eruption status.
James Elliott
doaj   +1 more source

Syphilis in Maria Salviati (1499–1543), Wife of Giovanni de’ Medici of the Black Bands

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
Researchers from the Division of Paleopathology of Pisa University (Pisa, Italy) exhumed the well-preserved skeleton of Maria Salviati (1499–1543), wife of Giovanni de’ Medici, named “Giovanni of the Black Bands,” in Florence in 2012.
Antonio Fornaciari   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bronze Age Kurgan Kalinovsky II. Archaeological and Anthropological Study Perspectives

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2023
The Paper presents publication and analysis of the burial materials from excavations of a detached kurgan Kalinovsky II located in the central part of the Volga-Don interfluve near the eastern outskirts of the Kalinovsky farm of the Frolovsky district of
Alexander N. Dyachenko   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of traumatic leptomeningeal cyst in forensic anthropology – A case report

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2016
Paleopathology is a very extensive subject. Sometimes some pathological changes of bones may mimic trauma. This paper demonstrates a rare complication of cranial fractures which may be mistaken with gunshot injury in skeletonized remains.
Pavel Timonov   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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