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Ecology of Malaria Mortality: A Spatiotemporal Mapping Approach. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives This study examines the spatiotemporal ecology of probable malaria mortality in 19th‐century southern Ontario to evaluate how settlement expansion, landscape transformation, and infrastructure development structured transmission risk in a temperate, settler‐colonial context.
Cooke A, Brickley MB.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Pets or functional animals: dogs and cats in medieval and early modern Estonia [PDF]

open access: yesEesti Arheoloogiaajakiri, 2023
The role of dogs and cats in the history of the human-animal relationship has been variable. They have served as pets, working animals, useful commensals, subjects of worship and sacrifice, and providers of resources, such as skin and meat.
Sander Nuut   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paleopathology

open access: yesCanarias Arqueológica, 2021
Arthur C. Aufderheide (Art, as he liked to be called by his many friends) was always in love of ancient cultures and archaeology, therefore it is not strange that in the late 1970s -early 1980s feeling old- according to his own words - to study a humanistic career decided to combine his own experience as a pathologist, his adventurer spirit and ...
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Human, All Too Human: Differentiating Non-Human from Human Bones in Protohistoric Cremation Contexts from Northern Italy

open access: yesHeritage, 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

Paleopathological analysis of the cranial samples from Pre-Columbian Cuba [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023
The article presents a paleopathological analysis of two cranial samples from pre-Columbian Cuba: the Siboney (also known as Archaic) sample consisting of 40 individuals and the Taíno sample composed of 27 individuals.
Syutkina T.A.
doaj   +1 more source

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

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

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

PALEOPATHOLOGY [PDF]

open access: yesSouthern Medical Journal, 1919
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