Companion to Paleopathology

Anne L. Grauer is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. She is the editor of Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing History Through Skeletal Analysis (1995) and co-editor of Sex and Gender in Paleopathological Perspective (with Stuart-Macadam, 1998). She has served on the editorial board of the American Journal  of Physical Anthropology, the executive board of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and is a past President of the Paleopathology Association.

“The book charts developing maturity reflecting the excellent work of the early pioneers but emphasising the bigger questions which research today facilitates such as how and why diseases develop, determining their frequency in the past and identifying how humans respond under different conditions and circumstances. Such questions have relevance for understanding diseases and their trajectories in contemporary populations.”  (Chromatographia, 1 August 2013)

• List of Illustrations xi List of Tables xviiNotes on Contributors xixAcknowledgements xxviii1 Introduction: The Scope of Paleopathology 1Anne L. GrauerPart I Approaches, Perspectives and Issues 152 Ethics and Issues in the Use of Human Skeletal Remains in Paleopathology 17Patricia M. Lambert3 Evolutionary Thought in Paleopathology and the Rise of the Biocultural Approach 34Molly K. Zuckerman, Bethany L. Turner, and George J. Armelagos4 The Bioarchaeological Approach to Paleopathology 58Michele R. Buzon5 The Molecular Biological Approach in Paleopathology 76James H. Gosman6 The Ecological Approach: Understanding Past Diet and the Relationship Between Diet and Disease 97M. Anne Katzenberg7 An Epidemiological Approach to Paleopathology 114Jesper L. Boldsen and George R. Milner8 The Promise, the Problems, and the Future of DNA Analysis in Paleopathology Studies 133Mark Spigelman, Dong Hoon Shin, and Gila Kahila Bar Gal9 The Analysis and Interpretation of Mummifi ed Remains 152Michael R. Zimmerman10 The Study of Parasites Through Time: Archaeoparasitology and Paleoparasitology 170Katharina Dittmar, Adauto Araújo, and Karl J. Reinhard11 More Than Just Mad Cows: Exploring Human–Animal Relationships Through Animal Paleopathology 191Beth Upex and Keith Dobney12 How Does The History of Paleopathology Predict its Future? 214Mary Lucas Powell and Della Collins CookPart II Methods and Techniques of Inquiry 22513 A Knowledge of Bone at the Cellular (Histological) Level is Essential to Paleopathology 227Bruce D. Ragsdale and Larisa M. Lehmer14 Differential Diagnosis and Issues in Disease Classifi cation 250Donald J. Ortner15 Estimating Age and Sex from the Skeleton, a Paleopathological Perspective 268George R. Milner and Jesper L. Boldsen16 The Relationship Between Paleopathology and the Clinical Sciences 285Simon Mays17 Integrating Historical Sources with Paleopathology 310Piers D. Mitchell18 Fundamentals of Paleoimaging Techniques: Bridging the Gap Between Physicists and Paleopathologists 324Johann Wanek, Christina Papageorgopoulou, and Frank Rühli19 Data and Data Analysis Issues in Paleopathology 339Ann L.W. StodderPart III Diseases of the Past: Current Understandings and Controversies 35720 Trauma 359Margaret A. Judd and Rebecca Redfern21 Developmental Disorders in the Skeleton 380Ethne Barnes22 Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases 401Tomasz Kozłowski and Henryk W. Witas23 Tumors: Problems of Differential Diagnosis in Paleopathology 420Don Brothwell24 Re-Emerging Infections: Developments in Bioarchaeological Contributions to Understanding Tuberculosis Today 434Charlotte Roberts25 Leprosy (Hansen’s disease) 458Niels Lynnerup and Jesper Boldsen26 Treponematosis: Past, Present, and Future 472Della Collins Cook and Mary Lucas Powell27 Nonspecifi c Infection in Paleopathology: Interpreting Periosteal Reactions 492Darlene A. Weston28 Joint Disease 513Tony Waldron29 Bioarchaeology's Holy Grail: The Reconstruction of Activity 531Robert Jurmain, Francisca Alves Cardoso, Charlotte Henderson, and Sébastien Villotte30 Oral Health in Past Populations: Context, Concepts and Controversies 553John R. LukacsIndex 582