Differential visibility of treponemal disease in pre-Columbian stratified societies: Does rank matter?

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-195

  Smith, Maria Ostendorf ^a   Betsinger, Tracy K ^b   Williams, Leslie Lea ^c  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dallas phase; Mississippian Period; status; Tennessee; treponematosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMATOSIS; UNITED STATES; YAWS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BONE AND BONES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TENNESSEE; TREPONEMAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 78651508252     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21381     Document Type: Article

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