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Human major infections: Tuberculosis, treponematoses, leprosy-A paleopathological perspective of their evolution.
PLoS One
July 2021
Department of Archaeology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
The key to evolution is reproduction. Pathogens can either kill the human host or can invade the host without causing death, thus ensuring their own survival, reproduction and spread. Tuberculosis, treponematoses and leprosy are widespread chronic infectious diseases whereby the host is not immediately killed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA very rare case of possible actinomycosis of the mandible from the Middle Ages.
Int J Paleopathol
December 2020
Laboratory of Biological and Molecular Anthropology, Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic. Electronic address:
Objective: Documented cases of actinomycosis in archaeological skeletons are very rare, especially from Central Europe. Our contribution will help facilitate the differential diagnosis of this disease for other paleopathologists.
Material: This paper describes a pathological finding of the skeleton of a 40-year-old male from a burial ground in Sady-Špitálky (Czech Republic) dated to the 10th-12th century.
Application and limitations of endoscopy in anthropological and archaeological research.
Anat Rec (Hoboken)
June 2015
Bioanthropology Research Institute, College of Health Sciences, Quinnipiac University, Arizona, USA.
The use of endoscopy in anthropological and archaeological research was been well documented in the literature. This article explores the varied settings in which endoscopy is beneficial in gathering visual data for interpretation related to cultural remains and artifacts. Endoscopic data may be used to assist in the pursuit of answering such bioanthropological questions as sex, age at death, presence of paleopathologies, dental conditions, and cultural practices.
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