Health & Disease Presentations
Shakisha
Malaria
Sallares et al. (2004) The spread of malaria to southern Europe in antiquity: New approaches to old problems. Medical History 48:311-328. [pdf]
Megan
Mysterious Bog People from the Past
Omar et al. (1989) The conservation of bog bodies by freeze-drying. Studies in Conservation. 34:101-109. [pdf]
Patrick
Syphilis – Treponema pallidum
Mitchell (2003) Pre-Columbian Treponemal Disease From 14thCentury AD Safed, Israel, and Implications for theMedieval Eastern Mediterranean. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121:117-124. [pdf]
Hunnius et al. (2006) Histological IdentificationPre-Columbian England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129:559-566. [pdf]
Trina
Paget’s Disease of Bone
Roches et al. (2002) Microscopic Evidence for Paget’s Disease in Two Osteoarchaeological Samples from Early Northern France. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 12:229-234. [pdf]
Nicolette
Intentional Cultural Modifications to the Skeleton
Romero (1970) Dental mutilation, trephination, and cranial deformation. In T. D. Steward (ed.) Handbook of Middle American Indians vol. 9, pp. 50-67. [pdf]
Rachel
Rickets
Mays et al. (2006) Skeletal Manifestations of Rickets in Infants and Young Children in a Historic Population From England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129:559-566. [pdf]
Jack
Chemistry and Trace Element Potential in Paleopathology
Littleton (1999) Paleopathology of Skeletal Fluorosis. AmericanJournal of Physical Anthropology 109:465-483. [pdf]
Leverett (1982) Fluorides and the Changing Prevalence of Dental Caries. Science 217:26-30.
Lisa
Scurvy
Hoey (2005) Scurvy past and present: A historical overview. Journal of the AmericanAcademy of Dermotology March 2005, p. 35. [pdf]
Brickley & Ives (2006) Skeletal Manifestations of Infantile Scurvy. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129:163-172. [pdf]
Fain (2005) Musculoskeletal manifestations of scurvy. Bone Joint Spine 72:124-128. [pdf]
José
Osteomyelitis
Katzenberg & Lovell (1999) International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 12:229-234. [pdf]
Heather
Hormone Influence on Skeletal Development
Mulhern (2005) A Probable Case of Gigantism in a Fifth Dynasty Skeleton from theWesternCemetery at Giza, Egypt. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 15:261-275. [pdf]
Compston (2001) Sex steroids and bone. Physiological Reviews 81:419-447. [pdf]
Lauren
Ankylosing Spondylitis (Marie-Struempell’s Disease)
Klepinger (1979) Paleopathologic Evidence for the Evolution of
Rheumatoid Arthritis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 50:119-122. [pdf]
Brena
Tuberculosis
Donoghue et al. (2004) Tuberculosis: from prehistory to Robert Koch, asrevealed by ancient DNA. Lancet Infectious Disease 4:584-592. [pdf]
Kimberly
Osteoarthritis of the vertebral column
Knusel et al. (1997) Comparative Degenerative Joint Disease of the Vertebral Column in the Medieval Monastic Cemetery of the Gilbertine Priory of St. Andrew, Fishergate, York, England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 103:481-495. [pdf]
Beverly
Leprosy and Public Health
Gussow & Tracy (1971) The Use of Archival Materials in the Analysis and Interpretation of Field Data: A Case Study in the Institutionalization of the Myth of Leprosy as "Leper". American Anthropologist 73:695-8=709. [pdf]
Gaudet (1990) Telling it slant: Narrative, tall tales, and the reality of leprosy. Western Folklore 49:191-207. [pdf]
Merissa
Osteochondrodysplasia
Vanhoenacker et al. (2001) Congenital skeletal abnormalities: an introduction to theradiological semiology European Journal of Radiology 40:168-183. [pdf]
Ben
Leprosy
Moller-Christensen & Hughes (1962) Two early cases of leprosy in Great Britain. Man 62:177-179. [pdf]
Lauren H.
Pathologies of Post-Industrialized Nations
Steptoe & Wardle (1994) What the experts think: A European survey of expert opinion about the influence of lifestyle on health. European Journal of Epidemiology 10:195-203. [pdf]
Will
The Black Death
Perry & Fetherston (1997) Yersinia pestis—Etiologic Agent of Plague. Clinical Microbiology Reviews January 1997, pp. 35-66. [pdf]
Gilbert et al. (2004) Absence of Yersinia pestis-specific DNA in human
teeth from five European excavations of putative plague victims. Microbiology 150:341-354. [pdf]
Carlos
Congenital Defects and Craniosynostosis
Fenner (1938) Some Australian Aboriginal Sacrocephalic Skulls. Records of the SouthAustralianMuseum6:144-157. [pdf]
Hohenthal & Brooks (1960) An Archaeological Scaphocephal from California. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 18:59-67. [pdf]