CRC Press, 2003. — 418 p. This volume will look at the history of trepanation, the identification of skulls, the tools used to make the cranial openings, and theories as to why trepanation might have been performed many thousands of years ago.
Archaeopress, 2023. — 86 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 45). The Human Brain in Ancient Egypt provides a medical and historical re-evaluation of the function and importance of the human brain in ancient Egypt. The study evaluates whether treatment of the brain during anthropogenic mummification was linked to medical concepts of the brain. The notion that excerebration was...
Wiley, 2012. — 224 p. Written by one of the most consulted authorities on the subject, the book is the pre-eminent resource for developmental defects of the skeleton. This guide focuses on localized bone structures utilizing the morphogenetic approach that addresses the origins of variability within specific developmental fields during embryonic development. Drawings and...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 316 p. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide today, but are not just a modern phenomenon. To explore the deep roots of CVDs in human history, this book, for the first time, brings together bioarchaeological evidence from different periods, as old as 5000 BC, and geographic locations from Alaska to Northern...
3rd Edition. — Academic Press, 2019. — 842 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-809738-0. This book, Third Edition, provides an integrated and comprehensive treatment of the pathological conditions that affect the human skeleton. As ancient skeletal remains can reveal a treasure trove of information to the modern orthopedist, pathologist, forensic anthropologist, and radiologist, this book...
Springfield: Charles C Thomas, 2013. — 109 p. The goals of this guide to the identification and interpretation of joint disease are: (1) to identify the diagnostic criteria that are relevant to investigations of joint disease in dry and macerated bone specimens; (2) to differentiate between various disease forms; and (3) to highlight contentious issues, such as the antiquity of...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 428 p. To look upon a mummy is to come face to face with our past. This book presents the story of mummification as a practice worldwide. Mummies have been found on every continent, some deliberately preserved by use of a variety of complex techniques (as with the ancient Egyptians), others accidentally by dry baking heat,...
University Press of Florida, 2007. — 464 p. Twenty years ago Mark Nathan Cohen coedited a collection of essays that set a new standard in using paleopathology to identify trends in health associated with changes in prehistoric technology, economy, demography, and political centralization. Ancient Health expands and celebrates that work. Confirming earlier conclusions that human...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018. — 156 p. The majority of papers in this volume were originally presented at the eighth annual ‘Disease, Disability, and Medicine in Medieval Europe’ conference. The conference focused on infections, chronic illness, and the impact of infectious diseases on medieval society, including infection as a disability in the case of visible conditions,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 632 p. A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physical anthropology. - Presents a broad overview of the field of paleopathology, integrating theoretical and methodological approaches to understand biological and disease processes throughout human history - Demonstrates how paleopathology sheds...
Routledge, 2022. — 692 p. The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology provides readers with an overview of the study of ancient disease. The volume begins by exploring current methods and techniques employed by paleopathologists as means to highlight the range of data that can be generated, the types of questions that can be methodologically addressed, our current limitations, and...
Routledge, 2022. — 692 p. The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology provides readers with an overview of the study of ancient disease. The volume begins by exploring current methods and techniques employed by paleopathologists as means to highlight the range of data that can be generated, the types of questions that can be methodologically addressed, our current limitations, and...
Nova Science, 2015. — 221 p. While covering human history, civilization, and diseases to reveal why humans are sick with many ailments, this book provides the answers to the questions: “When, why, and how did humans contract all kinds of infectious and chronic diseases?” The increasing occurrence of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, asthma and cancer does not...
Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1942. — 137 p. L'histoire de l'une des premières 'autopsieс d'momies réalisée par le médecin belge Frans Jonckheere. Il l'exécuta en conjonction avec une radiographie de la momie du scribe royal Boutehammon, qui vivait à l'époque du règne de Pinedjem Ier (1070-1032 av. J.-C.) de la XXIe dynastie (1069-945 av. J.-C.).
Archaeopress, 2014. — 184 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 6). The study of human remains from ancient Egypt and Nubia has captured the imagination of many people for generations, giving rise to the discipline of palaeopathology and fostering bioarchaeological research. This book contains 16 papers that cover material presented at a workshop entitled ‘Palaeopathology in Egypt and...
2nd edition. — Academic Press, 2003. — 662 p. Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains provides an integrated and comprehensive treatment of pathological conditions that affect the human skeleton. There is much that ancient skeletal remains can reveal to the modern orthopaedist, pathologist, forensic anthropologist, and radiologist about the skeletal...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 314 p. — (BAR International Series 3030). En France, les périodes moderne et contemporaine sont en marge des problématiques bioarchéologiques et les référentiels ostéologiques restent peu nombreux. Dans la région PACA, les fouilles récentes de deux vastes ensembles funéraires à La Ciotat (1581-1831) et à Marseille (1784-1905), offrent l’opportunité...
John Wiley & Sons, 2008. — 408 p. Advances in Human Palaeopathology presents the first truly integrated methodological and biocultural approach to the expanding discipline of human palaeopathology. The book provides researchers and practitioners with a comprehensive guide to the main methods and techniques that are currently available for studying diseases and related conditions...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. — 385 p. Evolutionary medicine has been steadily gaining recognition, not only in modern clinical research and practice, but also in bioarchaeology (the study of archaeological human remains) and especially its sub-discipline, palaeopathology. To date, however, palaeopathology has not been necessarily recognised as particularly useful to...
Springer, 2008. — 224 p. The book features the methods and main achievements in this emerging field of research at the intersection of microbiology and evolution, history and anthropology. New molecular approaches have already provided exciting results, such as confirmation of a single biotype of Yersinia pestis as the causative agent of historical plague pandemics, and the closer...
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2012. — 560 p. — (Isthmia IX). This study describes and interprets the graves and human remains of Roman and Byzantine date recovered by excavation between 1954 and 1976 in several locales around the Isthmian Sanctuary and the succeeding fortifications. This material provides important evidence for both death and life in the...
3th edition. — The History Press, 2010. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-0752457505. 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 antiquity. Charlotte Roberts and Keith Manchester offer a vivid picture of ancient disease and trauma by combining the results of...
3rd edition. — The History Press, 2010. — 1013 p. — ISBN 978 0 7524 9497 5. The Archaeology of Disease shows how the latest scientific and archaeological techniques can be used to identify the common illnesses and injuries that humans suffered from in antiquity. In order to give a vivid picture of ancient disease and trauma the authors present the results of the latest...
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1995. — 119 p. — ISBN: 0-471-95506-X. This book helps those who are actively engaged in examining human remains from archaeological sites, with classifications of the various joint diseases which may be found. It is designed to be used as an aid during the actual examination of the skeleton. Particular emphasis is given to the fact that...
Springer, 2023. — 886 p. The study of paleopathology has two very different constituencies, the medical scientist and the zoologist/paleontologist/anthropologist. Their investigative procedures and professional jargon are different, sometimes to the point of mutual incomprehensibility. Paleontologists/anthropologists/zoologists have a limited data base for the characterization...
Springer, 2023. — 886 p. The study of paleopathology has two very different constituencies, the medical scientist and the zoologist/paleontologist/anthropologist. Their investigative procedures and professional jargon are different, sometimes to the point of mutual incomprehensibility. Paleontologists/anthropologists/zoologists have a limited data base for the characterization...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 255 p. — (BAR International Series 2836). This monograph summarizes the first anthropological survey of human skeletons excavated at the 2nd church cemetery in Pohansko-Břeclav (Czech Republic). The cemetery was discovered in 2006 in a north-eastern suburb of Pohansko and represents one of the key pieces of evidence about changes in human society at the...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 299 p.
Paleopathology is designed to help bone specialists with diagnosis of diseases in skeletal assemblages. It suggests an innovative method of arriving at a diagnosis in the skeleton by applying ‘operational definitions’. The aim is to ensure that all those who study bones will use the same criteria for diagnosing disease, which...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 340 p. While their health has suffered enormously because of the arrival of the Europeans, it is assumed that Aboriginal people enjoyed good health before 1788. Using data collected from all parts of the continent, this 1995 book studies the health of Australia's original inhabitants over 50,000 years. It represents the first continental survey...
Ин-т археологии РАН. — М.: Языки славянской культуры, 2005. — 320 с.: ил. Работа посвящена актуальному направлению современной антропологии и археологии - палеоэкологическим исследованиям древнего населения. Читатель может ознакомиться с реконструкциями быта и уклада жизни древнего населения благодаря анализу особенностей питания, отдельных системных заболеваний и маркеров...
Ин-т археологии РАН. — М.: Языки славянской культуры, 2005. — 320 с.: ил. Работа посвящена актуальному направлению современной антропологии и археологии - палеоэкологическим исследованиям древнего населения. Читатель может ознакомиться с реконструкциями быта и уклада жизни древнего населения благодаря анализу особенностей питания, отдельных системных заболеваний и маркеров...
Научное издание. — М.: Club Print, 2018. — 208 с. — ISBN: 978-5-94375-267-4. Поль Брока – знаковая фигура в истории мировой науки, выдающийся исследователь, оставивший свой след в нейрохирургии, основатель первого научного общества физических антропологов. К числу его достижений принадлежит заслуга первого научного описания феномена прижизненной трепанации головы, ставшей...
М.; Л.: Наука, 1965. — 304 с. Настоящая книга — результат многолетних исследований заведующего Кафедрой рентгенологии и радиологии и Музеем возрастной остеологии, патоостеологии и палеопатологии 1-го Ленинградского медицинского института, члена-корреспондента Академии медицинских наук СССР проф. Д. Г. Рохлина — единственная по палеопатологии на русском языке. В монографии изложены...
М.; Л.: Наука, 1965. — 304 с. Настоящая книга — результат многолетних исследований заведующего Кафедрой рентгенологии и радиологии и Музеем возрастной остеологии, патоостеологии и палеопатологии 1-го Ленинградского медицинского института, члена-корреспондента Академии медицинских наук СССР проф. Д. Г. Рохлина — единственная по палеопатологии на русском языке. В монографии изложены...
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