Two Cases of Facial Involvement in Probable Treponemal Infection from Late Prehistoric Coastal North Carolina

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 444-453

  Hutchinson, Dale L ^a   Weaver, David S ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human skeletons; Late Woodland; North Carolina; Paleopathology; Treponematosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013267739     PISSN: 1047482X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1212(199811/12)8:6<444::AID-OA440>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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