Soft tissue taphonomy: A paleopathology perspective

Publication year: 2011 Source: International Journal of Paleopathology, Available online 23 October 2011 Arthur C. Aufderheide Interest in the diseases that afflicted ancient populations (paleoepidemiology) has been increasing rapidly during the past several decades. It is now clear that a substantial amount of medical information present in the body at the moment of death remains accessible by laboratory studies of human mummies centuries or even millennia after death.

Publication year: 2011 Source: International Journal of Paleopathology, Available online 23 October 2011 Arthur C. Aufderheide Interest in the diseases that afflicted ancient populations (paleoepidemiology) has been increasing rapidly during the past several decades. It is now clear that a substantial amount of medical information present in the body at the moment of death remains accessible by laboratory studies of human mummies centuries or even millennia after death.

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