Paleodemographic comparison of a catastrophic and an attritional death assemblage

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 134-143

  Margerison, Beverley J ^a   Knüsel, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black Death; Epidemic; Medieval; Plague; Royal Mint; St. Helen on the Walls

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PLAGUE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BURIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PLAGUE;

EID: 0036785977     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.10082     Document Type: Article

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