An Epidemiological Approach to Paleopathology

A Companion to Paleopathology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 114-132

  Boldsen, Jesper L ^a   Milner, George R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diseases in bones teeth, principal objectives of paleopathology; Epidemiological approach to paleopathology; Estimating pathology in past populations, making promising progress; Lesions identified, sites of bone resorption proliferation activity at death; Osteological paradox, lesion frequencies not explained in paleoepidemiology; Paleoepidemiological diseases, identifiable from the increased risk of dying; Paleoepidemiology to paleopathology, and diseases in past populations; Pathological lesions, from skeletal samples; Porotic hyperostosis anemia, denoting poor nutrition infection; Skeletal lesions as consequence of disease, and risk factors in death

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885506023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444345940.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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