A preliminary assessment of health and disease in human skeletal remains from Shi San Hang: A prehistoric aboriginal site on Taiwan

Anthropological Science

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 203-223

  Pietrusewsky, Michael ^a   Tsang, Cheng Hwa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND PHILOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cribra orbitalia; Dental enamel hypoplasia; Dental paleopathology; Indicators of stress; Taiwan Aboriginals

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA; BONE INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENAMEL HYPOPLASIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEALTH; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; MALE; OCCUPATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PRESERVATION; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SKELETON; SPONDYLOLYSIS; TAIWAN;

EID: 0038109974     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.111.203     Document Type: Article

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