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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
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Paleopathology

open access: yesKazan 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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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
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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
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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

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
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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
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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
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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
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Recovery of a medieval Brucella melitensis genome using shotgun metagenomics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Shotgun metagenomics provides a powerful assumption-free approach to the recovery of pathogen genomes from contemporary and historical material. We sequenced the metagenome of a calcified nodule from the skeleton of a 14th-century middle-aged male ...
Bandiera, Pasquale   +7 more
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