The Archaeology of Disease

by Charlotte A. Roberts

Book Overview

This text illustrates how the techniques of palaeopathology and archaeology are used to identify injury and disease patterns in past human populations. The authors employ a biocultural approach, stressing the importance of using both the physical evidence, which is obvious, and the cultural proof, which is often less clear, in a multidisciplinary approach to diseases in people who lived in the past. The book is intended as a reference source to provide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801484480
• ISBN13: 9780801484483
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Disease is not a modern era problem

The book The Archeology of Disease is a good text to have in the study of paleopathology. It is not the only one, but it is a good one because the explanation of scientific practice in paleopathology is easy to understand.

Well-written and intelligible

Well-written and intelligible book on the archaeology of disease.Good discussions both of manifestations of disease in individualskeletal remains, and in populations. Mostly oriented towardsdisease per se, but there's a good chapter on trauma, as well.Especially good coverage of dental disease. Oriented towards anacademic, rather than towards a lay, audience, but I found it very readable nonetheless.