Temporal trends in demographic profiles and stress levels in medieval (6th-13th century) population samples from continental Croatia

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 598-605

  Šlaus, Mario ^a   Kollmann, Dana ^b   Novak, Shannon A ^c   Novak, Mario ^a  

^a CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Croatia)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicable diseases; Croatia; Demography; Dental enamel hypoplasia; Paleopathology; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BONE AGE; BONE DISEASE; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROATIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE MARKER; ENAMEL HYPOPLASIA; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PERIOSTITIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEX RATIO; SKULL INJURY; STRESS; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DENTAL ENAMEL HYPOPLASIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIOSTITIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036811653     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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