abstract：:Human and animal ectoparasites are often recovered from archaeological contexts being examined for preserved insect remains. Records of human lice, fleas and bedbugs are used to reconstruct past sanitary conditions and practices, as well as their geographic distribution and that of the pathogens for which they may be ...

journal_title：International journal of paleopathology

authors： Forbes V,Dussault F,Bain A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over recent decades histology has increasingly been used as a diagnostic tool in human dry bone palaeopathology. Still, the use of histology in human dry bone is associated with various problems, including a lack of pathognomonic histomorphology and a need for more experimental data. Consequently, the value of histolo...

journal_title：International journal of paleopathology

authors： De Boer HH,Van der Merwe AE,Maat GJR

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of 16th century graves from Zagreb, Croatia, revealed a case of frontal sinus osteoma in a middle-aged female. This lesion was discovered during visual examination, due to postmortem breakage of the frontal bone. The significance of this finding is based on the fact that frontal sinus osteomas are very ra...

journal_title：International journal of paleopathology

authors： Premužić Z,Rajić Šikanjić P,Mašić B

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical reports for Eleonora of Toledo (1522-1562), the wife of Cosimo I de' Medici, imply that during her 28th year she developed pulmonary tuberculosis, which was complicated by an attack of pernicious malaria, killing her at age 40. Eleonora's autopsy indicated that she had severe lung lesions consistent with chro...

journal_title：International journal of paleopathology

authors： Bianucci R,Giuffra V,Bachmeier BE,Ball M,Pusch CM,Fornaciari G,Nerlich AG

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A description of the late mediaeval skeleton (AD 1150-1539) of a young child with probable signs of tuberculosis is presented. This individual was recovered along with one hundred and ninety skeletons from the cemetery of the priory of SS Peter and Paul, Taunton, Somerset. Aged between three and five years old at deat...

journal_title：International journal of paleopathology

authors： Dawson H,Robson Brown K

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of violence and trauma in an archaeological context requires a nuanced and detailed analysis of material culture and human remains. This paper focuses on sharp-force trauma data from individual skeletal elements for the Ancestral Pueblo site Peñasco Blanco (n=1301) and the epiclassic site La Quemada...

journal_title：International journal of paleopathology

authors： Pérez VR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The soft tissue preservation system (STPS) is emerging as a method of expressing the degree of soft tissue present on an ancient human body (mummy). In this system the intact body is divided into five anatomic segments (head, thorax, pelvis, arms and legs). Each of these segments is assigned a maximal potential number...

journal_title：International journal of paleopathology

authors： Wittmers L Jr,Aufderheide AC,Buikstra J

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During recent years, the presence of linear ridges or islands of bone ('buttresses') on the anterior aspect of sheep metatarsals has assumed increased visibility in zooarchaeological studies. Although a number of causes have been suggested, the etiology and pathogenesis of this condition has remained unresolved. In th...

journal_title：International journal of paleopathology

authors： Thomas R,Grimm JM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival of an adult male (M9) with juvenile-onset quadriplegia in Neolithic Vietnam indicates provision of continuous care from his community, and adds to the growing literature documenting survival of disabled individuals in prehistory. Although the role of care-giving in achieving survival is occasionally acknowled...

journal_title：International journal of paleopathology

authors： Tilley L,Oxenham MF

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00