What skeletons tell us. the story of human paleopathology

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 459, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 247-254

  Ortner, Donald J ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancient health; Paleopathology; Skeletal disease

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE DISEASE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEPROSY; OSSIFICATION; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PERIOSTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMATOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

BONE AND BONES; BONE DISEASES; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMAL INFECTIONS; TUBERCULOSIS, OSTEOARTICULAR;

EID: 80052416531     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: 14322307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-011-1122-x     Document Type: Review

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