Beginning some 10,000 years ago, humans began a dramatic alteration in living conditions
relating especially to the shift in lifeway from foraging to farming. In addition to the initiation …

Skeletons drawn from archaeological contexts provide a fund of data for assessing disease
in general and timing of epidemics in particular in past societies. The bioarchaeological …

Diseases caused by infectious agents have profoundly affected both human history and
biology. In demographic terms, infectious diseases–including both great epidemics, such as …

The impact of endemic and epidemic disease on humans has traditionally been seen as a
comparatively recent historical phenomenon associated with the Neolithisation of human …

▪ Abstract We use an expanded framework of multiple epidemiologic transitions to review the
issues of re/emerging infection. The first epidemiologic transition was associated with a rise …

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M ajor changes in patterns of Native American mortality, health, and disease accompanied
the gradual transition from the Archaic hunter-gatherer lifeway, prevalent before 3,000 years …

This perspective draws on the record of ancient pathogen genomes and microbiomes
illuminating patterns of infectious disease over the course of the Holocene in order to …

This book traces the social and environmental determinants of human infectious diseases
from the Neolithic to the present day. Despite recent high profile discoveries of new …

All humans live in a world full of microbes, including bacteria, viruses, prions, fungi,
protozoa, and multi-cellular parasites. Microbes are in our environment and they live on and …