Description
Book SynopsisA Companion to Paleopathology offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last few decades into an exploration of disease processes in the human skeleton.
Trade Review“The book charts developing maturity reflecting the excellent work of the early pioneers but emphasising the bigger questions which research today facilitates such as how and why diseases develop, determining their frequency in the past and identifying how humans respond under different conditions and circumstances. Such questions have relevance for understanding diseases and their trajectories in contemporary populations.” (Chromatographia, 1 August 2013)
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi
List of Tables xvii
Notes on Contributors xix
Acknowledgements xxviii
1 Introduction: The Scope of Paleopathology 1
Anne L. Grauer
Part I Approaches, Perspectives and Issues 15
2 Ethics and Issues in the Use of Human Skeletal Remains in Paleopathology 17
Patricia M. Lambert
3 Evolutionary Thought in Paleopathology and the Rise of the Biocultural Approach 34
Molly K. Zuckerman, Bethany L. Turner, and George J. Armelagos
4 The Bioarchaeological Approach to Paleopathology 58
Michele R. Buzon
5 The Molecular Biological Approach in Paleopathology 76
James H. Gosman
6 The Ecological Approach: Understanding Past Diet and the Relationship Between Diet and Disease 97
M. Anne Katzenberg
7 An Epidemiological Approach to Paleopathology 114
Jesper L. Boldsen and George R. Milner
8 The Promise, the Problems, and the Future of DNA Analysis in Paleopathology Studies 133
Mark Spigelman, Dong Hoon Shin, and Gila Kahila Bar Gal
9 The Analysis and Interpretation of Mummifi ed Remains 152
Michael R. Zimmerman
10 The Study of Parasites Through Time: Archaeoparasitology and Paleoparasitology 170
Katharina Dittmar, Adauto Araújo, and Karl J. Reinhard
11 More Than Just Mad Cows: Exploring Human–Animal Relationships Through Animal Paleopathology 191
Beth Upex and Keith Dobney
12 How Does The History of Paleopathology Predict its Future? 214
Mary Lucas Powell and Della Collins Cook
Part II Methods and Techniques of Inquiry 225
13 A Knowledge of Bone at the Cellular (Histological) Level is Essential to Paleopathology 227
Bruce D. Ragsdale and Larisa M. Lehmer
14 Differential Diagnosis and Issues in Disease Classifi cation 250
Donald J. Ortner
15 Estimating Age and Sex from the Skeleton, a Paleopathological Perspective 268
George R. Milner and Jesper L. Boldsen
16 The Relationship Between Paleopathology and the Clinical Sciences 285
Simon Mays
17 Integrating Historical Sources with Paleopathology 310
Piers D. Mitchell
18 Fundamentals of Paleoimaging Techniques: Bridging the Gap Between Physicists and Paleopathologists 324
Johann Wanek, Christina Papageorgopoulou, and Frank Rühli
19 Data and Data Analysis Issues in Paleopathology 339
Ann L.W. Stodder
Part III Diseases of the Past: Current Understandings and Controversies 357
20 Trauma 359
Margaret A. Judd and Rebecca Redfern
21 Developmental Disorders in the Skeleton 380
Ethne Barnes
22 Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases 401
Tomasz Kozłowski and Henryk W. Witas
23 Tumors: Problems of Differential Diagnosis in Paleopathology 420
Don Brothwell
24 Re-Emerging Infections: Developments in Bioarchaeological Contributions to Understanding Tuberculosis Today 434
Charlotte Roberts
25 Leprosy (Hansen’s disease) 458
Niels Lynnerup and Jesper Boldsen
26 Treponematosis: Past, Present, and Future 472
Della Collins Cook and Mary Lucas Powell
27 Nonspecifi c Infection in Paleopathology: Interpreting Periosteal Reactions 492
Darlene A. Weston
28 Joint Disease 513
Tony Waldron
29 Bioarchaeology's Holy Grail: The Reconstruction of Activity 531
Robert Jurmain, Francisca Alves Cardoso, Charlotte Henderson, and Sébastien Villotte
30 Oral Health in Past Populations: Context, Concepts and Controversies 553
John R. Lukacs
Index 582
