Companion to Paleopathology - AL Grauer
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A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensiveoverview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physicalanthropology. Presents a broad overview of the field of paleopathology,integrating theoretical and methodological approaches to understandbiological and disease processes throughout human history Demonstrates how paleopathology sheds light on the past throughthe analysis of human and non-human skeletal materials, mummifiedremains and preserved tissue Integrates scientific advances in multiple fields thatcontribute to the understanding of ancient and historic diseases,such as epidemiology,…mehr

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A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensiveoverview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physicalanthropology.
Presents a broad overview of the field of paleopathology,integrating theoretical and methodological approaches to understandbiological and disease processes throughout human history
Demonstrates how paleopathology sheds light on the past throughthe analysis of human and non-human skeletal materials, mummifiedremains and preserved tissue
Integrates scientific advances in multiple fields thatcontribute to the understanding of ancient and historic diseases,such as epidemiology, histology, radiology, parasitology,dentistry, and molecular biology, as well as archaeological,archival and historical research.
Highlights cultural processes that have an impact on theevolution of illness, death and dying in human populations,including subsistence strategies, human environmental adaptations,the effects of malnutrition, differential access to resources, andinterpersonal and intercultural violence
Autorenporträt
Anne L. Grauer is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. She is the editor of Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing History Through Skeletal Analysis (1995) and co-editor of Sex and Gender in Paleopathological Perspective (with Stuart-Macadam, 1998). She has served on the editorial board of the American Journal  of Physical Anthropology, the executive board of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and is a past President of the Paleopathology Association.