Infectious diseases were widespread in Prehistory, as the archaeological record sometimes reveals. Most infectious processes leave no trace in the skeletal apparatus, but the exceptions that allow us to learn more about one of the main causes of death in Antiquity. Traditionally, many of today’s diseases have been considered to have originated in the Neolithic period, but evidence shows that some of them are as old as human evolution itself. It seems clear that, on the one hand, with the adoption of agriculture and livestock, human populations grew exponentially in number, enabling greater transmission of virus, bacteria and parasites; and, on the other hand, they acquired new micro-organisms from livestock following the so-called secondary...
International audiencePathoecology provides unique frameworks for understanding disease transmission...
During the processes of human population dispersal around the world over the past 50 000-100 000 yea...
Contact with other animals was the cause of the worst infectious illnesses that have affected the hu...
Infectious diseases were widespread in Prehistory, as the archaeological record sometimes reveals. M...
This text aims to provide a social and humanistc point of view of infectous diseases in Prehistory. ...
Pathoecology provides unique frameworks for understanding disease transmission in ancient population...
RESUMEN : Con el crecimiento del número de habitantes en el planeta y de las conexiones intercontin...
RESUMEN: La Paleopatología es una disciplina relativamente reciente que estudia las enfermedades del...
The classical hypothesis proposes that Chagas disease has been originated in the Andean region among...
Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut.-- Fecha de defensa: 2...
Many of the major human infectious diseases, including some now confined to humans and absent from a...
En las dos últimas décadas se ha presentado un incremento considerable en la incidencia de enfermeda...
none3noThe historical-medical and anthropological studies, regarding Mesoamerica and South America, ...
Copyright: © 2014 Earla P. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creati...
El cólera es una enfermedad altamente contagiosa que tuvo una gran significancia en la historia epid...
International audiencePathoecology provides unique frameworks for understanding disease transmission...
During the processes of human population dispersal around the world over the past 50 000-100 000 yea...
Contact with other animals was the cause of the worst infectious illnesses that have affected the hu...
Infectious diseases were widespread in Prehistory, as the archaeological record sometimes reveals. M...
This text aims to provide a social and humanistc point of view of infectous diseases in Prehistory. ...
Pathoecology provides unique frameworks for understanding disease transmission in ancient population...
RESUMEN : Con el crecimiento del número de habitantes en el planeta y de las conexiones intercontin...
RESUMEN: La Paleopatología es una disciplina relativamente reciente que estudia las enfermedades del...
The classical hypothesis proposes that Chagas disease has been originated in the Andean region among...
Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut.-- Fecha de defensa: 2...
Many of the major human infectious diseases, including some now confined to humans and absent from a...
En las dos últimas décadas se ha presentado un incremento considerable en la incidencia de enfermeda...
none3noThe historical-medical and anthropological studies, regarding Mesoamerica and South America, ...
Copyright: © 2014 Earla P. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creati...
El cólera es una enfermedad altamente contagiosa que tuvo una gran significancia en la historia epid...
International audiencePathoecology provides unique frameworks for understanding disease transmission...
During the processes of human population dispersal around the world over the past 50 000-100 000 yea...
Contact with other animals was the cause of the worst infectious illnesses that have affected the hu...