Life and death in a civitas capital: Metabolic disease and trauma in the children from late roman Dorchester, Dorset

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 405-416

  Lewis, Mary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anemia; Poundbury camp; Rib fractures; Rickets; Scurvy; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD INJURY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; METABOLIC DISORDER; OSTEOMALACIA; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PREVALENCE; RIB FRACTURE; RICKETS; SCURVY; UNITED KINGDOM; URBANIZATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CEMETERIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD REARING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENGLAND; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; METABOLIC DISEASES; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; ROMAN WORLD; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77953481995     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21239     Document Type: Article

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