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 todays 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 ...
Copyright: © 2014 Earla P. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creati...
International audiencePathoecology provides unique frameworks for understanding disease transmission...
The quest for the origin and dispersion of Chagas' disease, the second most important vector‐borne d...
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. ...
RESUMEN : Con el crecimiento del número de habitantes en el planeta y de las conexiones intercontin...
Pathoecology provides unique frameworks for understanding disease transmission in ancient population...
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...
En las dos últimas décadas se ha presentado un incremento considerable en la incidencia de enfermeda...
Many of the major human infectious diseases, including some now confined to humans and absent from a...
none3noThe historical-medical and anthropological studies, regarding Mesoamerica and South America, ...
El cólera es una enfermedad altamente contagiosa que tuvo una gran significancia en la historia epid...
During the processes of human population dispersal around the world over the past 50 000-100 000 yea...
Copyright: © 2014 Earla P. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creati...
International audiencePathoecology provides unique frameworks for understanding disease transmission...
The quest for the origin and dispersion of Chagas' disease, the second most important vector‐borne d...
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. ...
RESUMEN : Con el crecimiento del número de habitantes en el planeta y de las conexiones intercontin...
Pathoecology provides unique frameworks for understanding disease transmission in ancient population...
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...
En las dos últimas décadas se ha presentado un incremento considerable en la incidencia de enfermeda...
Many of the major human infectious diseases, including some now confined to humans and absent from a...
none3noThe historical-medical and anthropological studies, regarding Mesoamerica and South America, ...
El cólera es una enfermedad altamente contagiosa que tuvo una gran significancia en la historia epid...
During the processes of human population dispersal around the world over the past 50 000-100 000 yea...
Copyright: © 2014 Earla P. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creati...
International audiencePathoecology provides unique frameworks for understanding disease transmission...
The quest for the origin and dispersion of Chagas' disease, the second most important vector‐borne d...