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Paleopathology

The study of disease in prehistoric times as revealed in bones, mummies, and archaeologic artifacts.
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Review
2009
Review
2009
Issues in paleopathology and possible strategies for dealing with them.
  • D. Ortner
  • Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht uber die…
  • 2009
  • Corpus ID: 24520252
Human paleopathology has the potential of enriching what we can reconstruct about the lives of our recent and ancient ancestors… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Advances in Human Paleopathology
A in Human Paleopathology is a comprehensive book exploring several different overarching themes that form the basis for the… 
2004
2004
Dental paleoradiology: applications in paleoanthropology and paleopathology.
OBJECTIVE To study the emergent role of computed tomography (CT) in the evaluation of ancient human dental remains. METHODS We… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Whole-body three-dimensional multidetector CT of 13 Egyptian human mummies.
OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to assess the role of multidetector CT and three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions in… 
1993
1993
The paleopathology of the cardiovascular system.
Paleopathology, the study of disease in ancient remains, adds the dimension of time to our study of health and disease. The… 
1988
1988
Paleopathology in Australopithecus africanus: a suggested case of a 3-million-year-old prepubertal periodontitis.
The fossil remains of a juvenile Australopithecus africanus specimen from Sterkfontein Member 4 temporally confined on faunal… 
1987
1987
Endemic disease patterns in paleopathology: porotic hyperostosis.
Recent research has shown that constitutional factors can elicit a porotic skeletal lesion pattern related to iron-deficiency… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Paleopathology in an Iroquoian ossuary, with special reference to tuberculosis.
Pathological skeletal remains from the Uxbridge Ossuary (1490 +/- 80 A.D., N = 457) are classified into four broad categories… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Atlas of Human Paleopathology
Review
1977
Review
1977
The Structural Basis of Membrane Function
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