The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology is a major reference work for all those interested in the identification of disease in human remains. Many diseases leave characteristic lesions and deformities on human bones, teeth and soft tissues that can be identified many years after death. This comprehensive volume includes all conditions ...
The fact that bodies decay after death has concerned humans throughout the ages. Many cultures have attempted to arrest this decay, so that bodies are preserved (or mummified) in a state as near to life as possible, but spontaneously mummified bodies are also found. Mummies are being studied increasingly to answer questions about the health, ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780521552035ISBN:0521552036
Description: BRAND NEW. 11.18 by 1.5 inches. (496 pages) comprehensive, practical reference for all interested in identification of disease in ancient human remains. many diseases leave characteristic lesions on human bone, tooth or soft tissue which can be identified many years after death. this comprehensive volume allows paleopathologists, anthropologists, archeologists, demographers and physicians to identify and interpret disease in ancient human remains. many diseases leave characteristic lesions on ... read more
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Standards for data collection from human skeletal remains : proceedings of a seminar at the Field Museum of Natural History, organized by Jonathan Haas
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Jonathan Haas, Jane E. Buikstra, Douglas H. Ubelaker, David Aftandilian, Field Museum of Natural History
