Cranial vault trauma and selective mortality in medieval to early modern Denmark

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1721-1726

  Boldsen, Jesper L ^a   Milner, George R ^b   Weise, Svenja ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cranial trauma survival; Premodern Denmark; Selective mortality; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; BONE REMODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRANIAL VAULT TRAUMA; DENMARK; DYING; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRONTAL BONE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MIDDLE AGES; MORTALITY; OCCIPITAL BONE; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SKELETON; SKULL; SKULL FRACTURE; SURVIVOR; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VIOLENCE; AGE; ARCHEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTORY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PATHOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; ARCHAEOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENMARK; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SKULL FRACTURES;

EID: 84922664268     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412511112     Document Type: Article

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