More than 20 years ago, Wood et al.(Curr Anthropol 33: 343–370, 1992) published “The
Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples,” in …

“World wide, five million people died as a result of an injury in 2000… for each injury death,
there are several thousand injury survivors who are left with permanent disabling …

The definition of paleopathology has evolved over time through the field's many
incarnations. Over the past 200 years it has developed from a pastime of Victorian …

Objective Was cancer a rare disease in the past? Our objective is to consider the various
terminological, theoretical, and methodological biases that may affect perceptions of the …

Romano-British towns are conventionally divided into those that possessed administrative
powers (the major or 'public'towns) and those that did not (the minor or 'small towns'). Public …

Biological, sociocultural, demographic, and environmental factors are key determinants to
the contemporary burden of malignant oncological diseases. Albeit a currently well-known …

This contribution describes the study of palaeopathology, the history of its development,
analytical methods used, types of studies done, and its future. Palaeopathology has …

Osteological and archaeological approaches are brought together to investigate questions
on the mortuary practices, health, demography, identities, and chronology of Early Bronze …

Chapter 2 presents the background against which the bioarchaeology of care approach was
developed. It reviews past archaeological studies in which the likelihood of health-related …

Identification of the deceased from skeletal remains is a dynamic and challenging process,
and each case presents with a unique array of information from which the forensic …