The Archaeology of Disease
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Book Overview
This text illustrates how the techniques of palaeopathology and archaeology are used to identify injury and disease patterns in past human populations. The authors employ a biocultural approach, stressing the importance of using both the physical evidence, which is obvious, and the cultural proof, which is often less clear, in a multidisciplinary approach to diseases in people who lived in the past. The book is intended as a reference source to provide historical background and cultural data on disease and the history of medicine in antiquity.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801484480
ISBN13:9780801484483
Release Date:January 1997
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.36 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"
Customer Reviews
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Disease is not a modern era problem
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
The book The Archeology of Disease is a good text to have in the study of paleopathology. It is not the only one, but it is a good one because the explanation of scientific practice in paleopathology is easy to understand.
Well-written and intelligible
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Well-written and intelligible book on the archaeology of disease.Good discussions both of manifestations of disease in individualskeletal remains, and in populations. Mostly oriented towardsdisease per se, but there's a good chapter on trauma, as well.Especially good coverage of dental disease. Oriented towards anacademic, rather than towards a lay, audience, but I found it very readable nonetheless.
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