Pandemics, past and present: The role of biological anthropology in interdisciplinary pandemic studies

J Dimka, TP van Doren… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biological anthropologists are ideally suited for the study of pandemics given their strengths
in human biology, health, culture, and behavior, yet pandemics have historically not been a …

Climate change, human health, and resilience in the Holocene

G Robbins Schug, JE Buikstra… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change is an indisputable threat to human health, especially for societies already
confronted with rising social inequality, political and economic uncertainty, and a cascade of …

Forager and farmer evolutionary adaptations to malaria evidenced by 7000 years of thalassemia in Southeast Asia

M Vlok, HR Buckley, JJ Miszkiewicz, MM Walker… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Thalassemias are inherited blood disorders that are found in high prevalences in the
Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. These diseases provide varying levels of …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond dirty teeth: Integrating dental calculus studies with osteoarchaeological parameters

A Radini, E Nikita - Quaternary International, 2023 - Elsevier
The study of ancient human dental calculus (mineralized dental plaque, also known as
tartar) is becoming increasingly important in osteoarchaeology, human palaeoecology and …

Scurvy in the tropics: Evidence for increasing non‐adult micronutrient deficiency with the transition to agriculture in northern Vietnam

M Vlok, MF Oxenham, K Domett… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Scurvy in non‐adults was assessed at the Pre‐Neolithic site of Con Co Ngua and
the Neolithic site of Man Bac in northern Vietnam to investigate nutritional stress during the …

The Mekong Delta before the Angkorian World

MT Stark, PY Manguin - The Angkorian World, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Most histories of Angkor begin in the 9th century CE, as Jayavarman II installed himself on
Phnom Kulen as his country's first cakravartin or universal ruler. Yet he was a direct …

[HTML][HTML] The Past 12,000 Years of Behavior, Adaptation, and Evolution Shaped Who We Are Today: Climate change, human health, and resilience in the Holocene

GR Schug, JE Buikstra, SN DeWitte… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Climate change is an indisputable threat to human health, especially for societies already
confronted with rising social inequality, political and economic uncertainty, and a cascade of …

Archaeology and contemporary emerging zoonosis: A framework for predicting future Rift Valley fever virus outbreaks

K Seetah, D LaBeaud, J Kumm… - International Journal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Modelling of emerging vector borne diseases serves as an important complement to clinical
studies of modern zoonoses. This article presents an archaeo‐historic epidemiological …

[PDF][PDF] Paleoepidemiological Considerations of Mobility and Population Interaction in the Spread of Infectious Diseases in the Prehistoric Past.

M Vlok, H Buckley - Bioarchaeology International, 2022 - researchgate.net
The processes of human mobility have been well demonstrated to influence the spread of
infectious disease globally in the present and the past. However, to date …

A bioarchaeology of social inequality and environmental change

KC Nystrom, GR Schug - … of the bioarchaeology of climate and …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identifies three avenues through
which climate change will impact human health: directly through the increasing frequency …