The Archaeology of Disease shows how the latest scientific and archaeological techniques
can be used to identify the common illnesses and injuries from which humans suffered in …

Tuberculosis has plagued humans and animals for thousands of years. Though apparently
in decline with the advent of effective chemotherapy and improved living conditions …

Descripción: Pocos han sido los esfuerzos dedicados al estudio paciente y sistemático de la
población latinoamericana concebida dentro de su perspectiva histórica de desarrollo. Tal …

Abstract The Many Hosts of Mycobacteria (MHM) meeting series brings together basic
scientists, clinicians and veterinarians to promote robust discussion and dissemination of …

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 …

Abstract Analysis of 483 skeletons from Arica (Chile) and review of mummy dissection
records demonstrates an overall 1% prevalence rate for tuberculosis between 2000 BC and …

The diagnosis of skeletal tuberculosis in human remains has traditionally been based upon
the detection of secondary skeletal lesions which result from hemotogenous dissemination …

Abstract Hrdlička ([1914] Smithson. Inst. Misc. Collect. 61: 1–69) reported that pre‐
Columbian skeletal material from the coastal lowland Andean region exhibited a high …

Two of humankind's most socially and psychologically devastating diseases, tuberculosis
and leprosy, have been the subject of intensive paleopathological research due to their …

Over one thousand prehistoric crania (n= 1,149) from northern Chile were analyzed to
determine if the presence of external auditory exostosis (EAE) was a type of subsistence …