Human body requires certain essential elements in small quantities and their absence or
excess may result in severe malfunctioning of the body and even death in extreme cases …

Two contradictory hypotheses on the role of dietary carbohydrates in health and disease
shape how dental-systemic associations are regarded. On one side, Cleave and Yudkin …

This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

Differences in patterns of diet and subsistence through the analysis of dental pathology and
tooth wear were studied in skeletal populations of Natufian hunter‐gatherers (10,500–8300 …

Teeth, being the most highly mineralized body structures, are uniquely well‐preserved
remains relating to past individuals, their life history, the diseases they suffered from and the …

This study integrates isotopic, palaeopathological, and historical evidence to investigate
infant and young child feeding practices in a Roman period (1st to 3rd centuries AD) skeletal …

Dental caries rates are frequently based exclusively upon the number of carious teeth
observed in a human skeletal series. However, a portion of the teeth lost antemortem will be …

Differential diagnosis of the aetiology of antemortem tooth loss (AMTL) may yield important
insights regarding patterns of behaviour in prehistoric peoples. Variation in the consistency …

Bone collagen stable carbon isotope values obtained from late Mesolithic and earlier
Neolithic skeletal remains from the Dnieper Rapids region of Ukraine confirm an overall …

Considering that paleopathology is the study of ancient disease, the social correlates of
disabling conditions in the past have been undertheorized by bioarchaeologists and …