A Companion to PaleopathologyAnne L. Grauer A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physical anthropology.
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Contents
Approaches Perspectives and Issues 15 | 15 |
of the Biocultural Approach | 34 |
The Bioarchaeological Approach to Paleopathology | 58 |
The Molecular Biological Approach in Paleopathology | 76 |
Understanding Past Diet | 97 |
An Epidemiological Approach to Paleopathology | 114 |
The Promise the Problems and the Future of | 133 |
The Analysis and Interpretation of Mummified Remains | 152 |
the Gap Between Physicists and Paleopathologists | 324 |
Data and Data Analysis Issues in Paleopathology | 339 |
Current Understandings | 357 |
Developmental Disorders in the Skeleton | 380 |
Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases | 401 |
Problems of Differential Diagnosis in Paleopathology | 420 |
Developments in Bioarchaeological | 434 |
Leprosy Hansens disease Niels Lynnerup and Jesper Boldsen | 458 |
Archaeoparasitology | 170 |
Relationships Through Animal Paleopathology | 191 |
How Does The History of Paleopathology Predict its Future? Mary Lucas Powell and Della Collins Cook | 214 |
Methods and Techniques of Inquiry 225 | 227 |
Differential Diagnosis and Issues in Disease Classification | 250 |
Estimating Age and Sex from the Skeleton | 268 |
The Relationship Between Paleopathology | 285 |
Integrating Historical Sources with Paleopathology | 310 |
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