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A Companion
to Paleopathology
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Contents
List of Illustrations
xi
List of Tables
xvii
Notes on Contributors
xix
Acknowledgements
xxviii
1 Introduction: The Scope of Paleopathology
Anne L. Grauer
1
Part I Approaches, Perspectives and Issues
15
2 Ethics and Issues in the Use of Human Skeletal Remains
in Paleopathology
Patricia M. Lambert
17
3 Evolutionary Thought in Paleopathology and the Rise
of the Biocultural Approach
Molly K. Zuckerman, Bethany L. Turner,
and George J. Armelagos
34
4 The Bioarchaeological Approach to Paleopathology
Michele R. Buzon
58
5 The Molecular Biological Approach in Paleopathology
James H. Gosman
76
6 The Ecological Approach: Understanding Past Diet
and the Relationship Between Diet and Disease
M. Anne Katzenberg
7 An Epidemiological Approach to Paleopathology
Jesper L. Boldsen and George R. Milner
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CONTENTS
The Promise, the Problems, and the Future of DNA
Analysis in Paleopathology Studies
Mark Spigelman, Dong Hoon Shin, and Gila Kahila Bar Gal
The Analysis and Interpretation of Mummified Remains
Michael R. Zimmerman
133
152
10 The Study of Parasites Through Time: Archaeoparasitology
and Paleoparasitology
Katharina Dittmar, Adauto Araújo, and Karl J. Reinhard
170
11 More Than Just Mad Cows: Exploring Human–Animal
Relationships Through Animal Paleopathology
Beth Upex and Keith Dobney
191
12 How Does The History of Paleopathology Predict its Future?
Mary Lucas Powell and Della Collins Cook
214
Part II Methods and Techniques of Inquiry
225
13 A Knowledge of Bone at the Cellular (Histological) Level
is Essential to Paleopathology
Bruce D. Ragsdale and Larisa M. Lehmer
227
14 Differential Diagnosis and Issues in Disease Classification
Donald J. Ortner
250
15 Estimating Age and Sex from the Skeleton,
a Paleopathological Perspective
George R. Milner and Jesper L. Boldsen
268
16 The Relationship Between Paleopathology
and the Clinical Sciences
Simon Mays
285
17 Integrating Historical Sources with Paleopathology
Piers D. Mitchell
18 Fundamentals of Paleoimaging Techniques: Bridging
the Gap Between Physicists and Paleopathologists
Johann Wanek, Christina Papageorgopoulou, and Frank Rühli
19 Data and Data Analysis Issues in Paleopathology
Ann L.W. Stodder
Part III Diseases of the Past: Current Understandings
and Controversies
310
324
339
357
20 Trauma
Margaret A. Judd and Rebecca Redfern
359
21 Developmental Disorders in the Skeleton
Ethne Barnes
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22 Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases
Tomasz Kozłowski and Henryk W. Witas
401
23 Tumors: Problems of Differential Diagnosis in Paleopathology
Don Brothwell
420
24 Re-Emerging Infections: Developments in Bioarchaeological
Contributions to Understanding Tuberculosis Today
Charlotte Roberts
434
25 Leprosy (Hansen’s disease)
Niels Lynnerup and Jesper Boldsen
458
26 Treponematosis: Past, Present, and Future
Della Collins Cook and Mary Lucas Powell
472
27 Nonspecific Infection in Paleopathology: Interpreting
Periosteal Reactions
Darlene A. Weston
492
28 Joint Disease
Tony Waldron
513
29 Bioarchaeology’s Holy Grail: The Reconstruction of Activity
Robert Jurmain, Francisca Alves Cardoso, Charlotte Henderson,
and Sébastien Villotte
531
30 Oral Health in Past Populations: Context, Concepts
and Controversies
John R. Lukacs
553
Index
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List of Illustrations
Figure 6.1 Delta notation for stable isotope ratios
Figure 6.2 Stable isotope analysis of modern plants collected from West Central
Chihuahua, Mexico. There is a wide range of variation in both δ13C
and δ15N values. C3 plants include juniper, pinon pine, onion and
walnut. C4 plants include maize, sorghum and dropseed grass. CAM
plants include agave, stool and prickly pear cactus. (Webster and
Katzenberg 2009).
Figure 6.3 Caries incidence increases as more maize is consumed, as reflected in
increasing δ13C values from four sites in southern Ontario: (from left to
right) Serpent Mounds, Surma, Serpent Pits and Bennett.
Figure 7.1 A deliberately simplified example where of 10,000 births, 1,000 people
had a lesion and the remainder did not. Individuals with the lesion
experienced a constant mortality rate of 0.1, whereas the others had a
rate of 0.05. The lines show the frequencies of individuals at each age
with the lesion in the cemetery sample (solid line) and living population
(broken line). Throughout life, there were proportionately more
individuals with the lesion at each age in the cemetery (dead) than there
were in the community (alive) from which the dead were drawn.
Figure 7.2 Somewhere between 8.1 and 32.3 percent of the individuals in the
once-living population suffered from a particular disease, as estimated
from the following information. The lesion is known to be present in
80 percent of individuals with the disease of interest, and it is present
in 30 percent of people without that disease; and the lesion is found
in 100 of 250 excavated skeletons. The horizontal line is the 95
percent confidence interval cutoff line, so the disease frequency
interval is demarcated by the part of the log-likelihood curve that lies
above the line.
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Figure 7.3
A Well–Sick–Dead model derived from Usher (2000) that is of potential
use to paleoepidemiologists. Individuals can undergo a transition from
Well to Sick, and from both Well and Sick to Dead. The Dead category, of
course, can be counted in an archaeological sample; the Well and Sick have
to be estimated. The model is interesting because parameter values that
can be derived from it are descriptive of life in the past. Much information
is contained in the κ-parameter, as it describes the relative mortality risk
experienced by people with a given lesion compared to people without it.
Figure 13.1 Typical bone tumor locations as they relate to events of normal growth
and development.
Figure 13.2
Giant cell tumor of bone, distal radius. [Left column]: gross view of
longitudinally saw-cut specimen (top) and large format histological
section (bottom) with the new ridged shell-type periosteal reaction that
replaced original cortex along the right side of the tumor. [Center
column]: macerated specimens of the ridged shell-type periosteal reaction,
endosteal surface (top) periosteal surface (bottom). [Right column]:
scanning electron micrographs – Endosteal surface (top) displaying
overlapping Howship’s lacunae, exposing an elliptical osteocyte lacuna
and above that, a somewhat erosion-resistant cement line (1300x). The
periosteal surface (bottom) pockmarked by shallow depressions where
osteoblasts were settling in as osteocytes beneath a layer of unmineralized
osteoid, removed during maceration (520x).
Figure 13.3 Infected non-union of distal tibia. External (A) and internal (C) views
of proximal and distal macerated tibia segments flank the saw-cut fresh
specimen (B). The gap shown in “A” and “C” was occupied by a gristlelike fibrocartilage band that triggered enchondral ossification where it
contacted bone as an attempt toward bony union (D). Would the
histopathology of dry bone “C” predict this pathologic enchondral
ossification?
Figure 13.4 Sickle cell disease. A: Saw cut fresh autopsy bones of the adult male who
died in sickle cell crisis (Faerman et al. 2000). Proximal radius (left) and
distal humerus (center) have old sclerotic residua of bone infarcts
appearing white against the hyperplastic red marrow filling the bones.
A recent infarct appears white in the distal diaphyseal marrow of the
proximal humeral segment. B: Same specimens after chemical (papain)
maceration display larger than normal cancellous modules. C: Ground
section at extreme right viewed under polarized light (courtesy of
Michael Schultz, MD; 40x).
Figure 14.1 (A) Woven bone fracture callus in the diaphysis of an adult right humerus
(NMNH 364816-32). (B) Cutback zone (arrow) in the proximal
metaphysis of the right tibia in a 4-year-old child from an archaeological
site in the American southwest (NMNH 326194). (C) Osteosarcoma
arising on the left ilium in a modern 25-year-old male (Institute of
Pathological Anatomy, University of Zurich 389/69). Note the poor
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organization of the bone. (D) Bone-forming lesion of the tibial shaft in
an adult male from a postcontact archeological site in Canaveral, Florida
(NMNH 377457). Note the area of porosity in the central area of the
lesion and the compact bone at the margins of the lesion (arrow). (E)
Abnormal rachitic bone separated from earlier spongy bone by fine
spicules of trabecular bone connecting the two areas of bone. Section
through the skull vault of a child 2 years of age with rickets (Federal
Pathologic-Anatomy Museum, Vienna, Austria catalog no. 5251). (F)
Abnormal compact bone formation on the medial and anterior surfaces
(arrow) of the right tibia in a case of treponematosis. Male, 30 years old,
from a prehistoric site in Virginia (USA NMNH 385788).
Figure 14.2 (A) Lesion characterized by a failure to form bone resulting from the
presence of a congenital epidermoid cyst. Note the compact bone
margins of the lesion indicative of a benign condition; modern 61-year –
old male (Department of Pathology, University of Strasbourg, France
catalog no. 7878). (B) Destructive lesions with reactive bone formation
at the margins of the lesion in a case of treponematosis. Frontal bone
from an adult male about 35 years of age from a medieval site at the
Hull Magistrate’s Court, Hull, England (burial no. 1216). (C) Earlystage porous destructive bone lesion in a case of treponematosis. Frontal
bone from an adult male about 35 years of age from a medieval site at
the Hull Magistrate’s Court, Hull, England (burial no. 1216).
(D) Porosity and eburnation of subchondral bone in the left femoral
head in a modern adult femur (Museum of Man, San Diego, California
catalog no. 1981-30-755). (E) Multiple “punched out” lytic lesions of
the cranium in an adult female skull about 35 years of age from an
archaeological site near Caudivilla, Peru dated between 500 and 1530
A.D. The destructive lesions were caused by multiple myeloma. Note
the large lesion in the right central portion of the figure with lobulated
margins that probably represents the coalescence of several smaller
lesions. Note also that there is no evidence of reactive bone formation
associated with any of the lesions (NMNH 242559). (F) Aggressive
bone destruction in the right anterior temporal, sphenoid and parietal
bones in a probable case of metastatic carcinoma. Note the very ragged
and poorly defined margins of the lesion. Adult female 17th century
from Varangerfjord, Norway (NMNH 241876).
Figure 14.3 (A) Right femur from a fetus with achondroplasia. Note the flared
metaphyses that are abnormally wide relative to the length of the femur.
Growth in width is minimally affected in achondroplasia so that the
margins of the metaphyses are relatively normal in size. (From the
Wellcome Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England, London
catalog no. S59.3.) (B) Posterior views of the left (lower) and right tibias
of a child about 9 years of age with osteomyelitis of the left tibia from an
archaeological site near La Otoya, Peru dated between 1400 and 1530
A.D. Note the greater length of the abnormal tibia in which the growth
process was stimulated by chronic inflammation (NMNH 378243).
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(C) Abnormal size apparent in the cranium in the left of the figure
compared with a normal cranium in the right portion of the figure. The
abnormal size is caused by a defect in the pituitary gland which secreted
excessive growth hormone during development. (Photo courtesy of Dr.
Takao Suzuki, Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.) (D) Severe deformity in a
case of rickets resulting from a deficiency in vitamin D in a male about
18 years of age at the time of death. Note the inward collapse of the
pelvis caused by the weight of the body on the femoral heads.
(Department of Pathology, University of Strasbourg, France catalog
number 7664d.) (E) Left lateral view of a cranium with premature fusion
of the sagittal suture resulting in an elongated cranium. Adult male from
a pre-Columbian site in Cinco Cerros region of Peru (NMNH 293841).
Figure 15.1
A comparison of actual and estimated ages for 239 modern American
(Bass Collection) skeletons examined by Milner. Ages were estimated with
the current Transition Analysis program, and they are based on pelvic and
cranial characteristics, as well as a uniform prior distribution. The diagonal
line indicates a perfect match between actual and estimated ages. Note
that a large fraction of the sample is over 50 years, a part of the lifespan
commonly handled through the use of a terminal open-ended age interval.
Figure 15.2 A comparison of the actual and estimated ages of the same 239
modern American (Bass Collection) skeletons, with the estimates being
experience-based impressions based on a wide array of characteristics
distributed throughout the skeleton. The diagonal line indicates a
perfect match between actual and estimated ages. These results indicate
there is much more that is informative about age than is captured by
conventional methods of scoring skeletal structures that emphasize the
pelvis, cranium, and ribs.
Figure 15.3 Humeral head diameters (mm) that correspond to an equal probability
of a skeleton being female or male are not the same in study samples
with different sex ratios. When females are disproportionately represented in the sample of skeletons, perhaps because they came from an
excavated convent cemetery, one can expect that large bones are more
likely to be from females than they would be in a sample that had few
women but many men.
Figure 16.1 Lateral radiograph of a tibia from a medieval case of Paget’s disease of
bone (PDB). The diseased proximal part of the bone has a mottled
appearance and shows loss of corticomedullary distinction. The
advancing front of Pagetic bone (arrowed) is V-shaped. (Pinhasi and
Mays 2008, Figure 11.7.)
Figure 16.2 A histological section of bone from the same individual as Figure 16. 1.
The randomly orientated, fragmented lamellar pattern is typical of
PDB. (Mays and Turner-Walker 1999, Figure 17b.)
Figure 16.3 (a) Porotic hyperostosis of the orbital roofs. (b) Porotic hyperostosis on
the ectocranial surface of skull vault fragments.
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Figure 18.1
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Dual-energy computed tomography of a mummy head. Grooves for the
middle meningeal artery are visible (black arrow) as well as resin-filled areas
in the posterior skull base (white arrow). The DECT scan (SOMATOM
Definition Dual Source, Siemens, Germany) illustrates a three-dimensional
(3-D) volume rendering of the mummy head (tube voltage 100 kVp, tube
current 120 mAs, spatial resolution 0.4 mm, matrix size 512 × 512).
Figure 19.1 A Peabody Museum Cranial Observation card used by Earnest Hooton,
with quantification data for antemortem tooth loss, wear, caries, and
other dental conditions from a skeleton excavated in the 1919 season of
the Andover Pecos Expedition. Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, [Peabody 2011.1.10].
Figure 19.2
The data recording card used by Earnest Hooton for the majority of the
Pecos study, with “+” signs replacing scores for dental wear, and caries
count replacing group counts. Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, [Peabody ID 2011.1.11].
Figure 19.3 Osteoware© data entry screen for abnormal bone formation. Courtesy
of the National Museum of Natural History.
Figure 19.4 Three presentations of a small dataset, with a) showing the raw data
alongside averages and standard deviations of the severity of DJD
within each age group; b) presenting the data as a bar chart; and
c) displaying the data as a scattergram. Data are from Stodder et al.
2010, courtesy of SWCA Environmental Consultants, Inc.
Figure 19.5 Back-to-back stem and leaf plot, maximum femur length, for ancestral
Pueblo females.
Figure 23.1 Examples of pathology and pseudopathology: a and b, lytic lesions in a
Hungarian skeleton; c, insect damage to a Socotran femur; d, postmortem skull damage.
Figure 23.2 Examples of pathology and normal variation: a, external surface of a
prehistoric native American skull showing osteolytic lesions; b, maxillary
sinus with remodeled bone indicative of sinusitis; c, endocranial view of
a frontal bone displaying deep pachionian impressions.
Figure 23.3 Variation in archaeological tumors: (a) small osteoma on the external
surface of a medieval skull; (b) much expanded mandibular body of a
prehistoric native American, with a displaced molar. Probably a
dentigorous cyst; (c) a Neolithic skull from Denmark, displaying bone
remodeling in the face as a result of a soft tissue tumor; (d) an odontome
in the mandible of a prehistoric Socotran; (e) a medieval tibia from York
displaying changes which are probably indicative of an osteoid osteoma;
(f ) midshaft of a post-medieval femur from York, displaying deep
cortical destruction, indicative of a malignancy.
Figure 23.4 Further examples of bone changes in tumor development: (a) zones
of osteoblastic surface changes in an ancient Peruvian female,
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probably indicative of a metastatic carcinoma; (b) mandible from Saxon
Winchester, with a lytic lesion and reactive marginal bone (Codman’s
triangle), probably indicating a metastatic deposit; (c) a Nubian lumbar
vertebra with a rounded inner chamber and external opening, possibly
indicating a hemangioma; (d) the femur of a Vth Dynasty Egyptian,
displaying changes typical of an osteochondroma.
Figure 27.1 Types of periosteal new bone production (after Ragsdale et al. 1981).
Figure 27.2 Various types of periosteal reaction (after Resnick 1995).
Figure 27.3 An illustration of Strothers’ and Metress’ (1975) four stages of plaquelike periostitis.
Figure 28.1 Classification of joint disease.
Figure 28.2 Factors contributing to joint failure (osteoarthritis).
Figure 30.1 Allied fields contributing to the advancement of knowledge of dental
paleopathology.
Figure 30.2 Examples of pathological conditions found in human dental remains:
a) dislocation of RM1 and antemortem loss of teeth due to severe wear
(MDH 23); b) antemortem loss (RM2–3), pulp exposure and periapical
abscesses resulting from severe occlusal wear (P3–4; HAR 148a); c) large
carious lesion (LM3) exposing pulp chamber (SKH 5); d) medium-size
calculus deposits, lingual aspect, left P4 through M2 (SKH 12) (note
calculus removed from LM3, only traces present); e) transposed upper
left canine. Canine crown carious, large LI2–P3 diastema (HAR 156a);
and f ) linear enamel hypoplaisa (LEH) four defects visible in LI1. Severe
episodes matched on I1, I2 and C indicating systemic stress (MR2 60)
(all photos J. R. Lukacs).
Figure 30.3 Examples of rotation of maxillary P4: a) maxilla, Homo floresiensis (LB
1), showing bilateral rotation of P4s (Brown et al. 2004; photo courtesy
of Peter Brown); b) maxillary dentition, adult female (MR3 183)
Neolithic Mehrgarh, with bilaterally rotated P4s (photo J. R. Lukacs);
c) maxillary dentition (MR3 283), Neolithic Mehrgarh, with bilateral
45 degree rotation of P4 inferred from interproximal wear facets (photo
J. R. Lukacs); and d), maxillary dentition of an adult Chenchu female
(CHU 73) with bilateral rotation and reduced crown size of P4 associated with reduced crown size of RI2 (photo G. C. Nelson).
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Table 9.1
Abbreviated list of conditions found in human mummified remains
Table 13.1 The twelve basic principles of orthopedic pathology
Table 13.2 The seven basic categories of disease
Table 13.3 The three fundamental inflammatory patterns
Table 16.1 Citation frequency of case reports versus other types of study in clinical
sciences and in paleopathology
Table 17.1 Twelve pitfalls in retrospective diagnosis that can result in errors
Table 17.2 Aspects of a source that optimizes reliability in retrospective
diagnosis
Table 18.1 Strengths and weaknesses of THz-imaging of normal and dehydrated
tissue
Table 18.2 Comparison between CLSM, wide-field microscopy and micro-CT
Table 18.3 Imaging modality and its benefit in paleopathology (invasive modalities
are shaded)
Table 21.1 Developmental field disorders of the skull
Table 21.2 Developmental field disorders of the vertebral column
Table 21.3 Developmental field disorders of the ribs and sternum
Table 21.4 Developmental field disorders of the upper limbs
Table 21.5 Developmental field disorders of the lower limbs
Table 23.1 Some major classes of tumor which can affect the skeleton. Adapted
from Stoker (1986)
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Table 24.1 Risk factors for tuberculosis: potential for recognition in the past ( or —)
Table 26.1 Pathological changes caused by treponemal syndromes
Table 27.1 Types of periosteal new bone production (after Edeiken et al. 1966,
Edeiken 1981)
Table 27.2 Types of periosteal new bone production (after Ragsdale et al. 1981;
Ragsdale 1993)
Table 27.3 Types of periosteal new bone production (Strothers and Metress 1975)
Table 27.4 Stages of severity of tibial infection (Lallo 1973)
Table 27.5 System for scoring periosteal new bone production and periosteal
vascularization (Cook 1976)
Table 28.1 Rank order of osteoarthritis at different sites; modern (radiological) and
archaeological data
Table 28.2 Subsets of psoriatic arthropathy in order of occurrence
Table 30.1 World Health Organization’s international classification of disease
Table 30.2 Pathological lesions commonly observed in teeth and jaws of
archaeologically derived human skeletons
Table 30.3 Tabular guide to topical coverage of oral pathology and related conditions
Table 30.4 Changing global coverage of health and subsistence transition
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Notes on
Contributors
Adauto Araújo is Senior Researcher at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. His research focus is on paleoparasitology and the origin and evolution of
infectious diseases. He is the author of numerous publications, the most recent being
Araujo et al. (2009) “Paleoparasitology of Chagas disease: a review,” Memórias do
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. He is a member of the Academia de Medicina do Rio de
Janeiro, Sociedade Brasileira de Parasitologia, and the Paleopathology Association.
George J. Armelagos is Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory
University. His research has focused on diet and disease in human adaptation. He has
co-authored Demographic Anthropology with Alan Swedlund, Consuming Passions
with Peter Farb, Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture with Mark Cohen. He
has been president of American Association of Physical Anthropologists and Chair of
the Anthropology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science. He received the Viking Fund Medal (2005), anthropology’s highest honor,
the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service (2008) from the American
Anthropological Association, and the Charles Darwin Award for Lifetime Achievement
from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (2009). In addition to all
of this, he is considered a relatively “good guy.”
Gila Kahila Bar Gal is Senior Lecturer at the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include molecular
evolution, co-evolution of host–pathogen, ancient DNA, domestication and
conservation genetics. She has published articles in Nature, and PLoS ONE, and most
recently has co-authored a paper (Polani et al. 2010) entitled, “Evolutionary dynamics
of endogenous feline leukemia virus proliferation among species of the domestic cat
lineage,” Virology.
Ethne Barnes is a physical anthropologist and paleopathologist, consultant, and
independent researcher in Tucson, Arizona. She is recognized for establishing the
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morphogenetic approach to analyzing developmental defects of the skeleton in
paleopathology. Her research and consultation work includes archaeological projects
in Greece, Turkey, China, South America and North America. Major publications
include Developmental Defects of the Axial Skeleton in Paleopathology (1994), Diseases
and Human Evolution (2005), and “Congenital Anomalies” in Advances in Human
Paleopathlogy (Pinhasi and Mays 2008).
Jesper Boldsen is Professor of Anthropology and head of ADBOU at the Institute of
Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark. His research interests revolve
around medieval population biology, epidemiology, demography, evolution and
leprosy. Recent publications include: “Early childhood stress and adult age mortality—a
study of dental enamel hypoplasia in the medieval Danish village of Tirup,” American
Journal of Physical Anthropology (2007); “Leprosy in Medieval Denmark—
Osteological and epidemiological analyses,” Anthropologischer Anzeiger (2010).
Don Brothwell is Emeritus Professor of Human Palaeoecology in the Department of
Archaeology at the University of York, U.K. His research interests are broad-based,
incorporating the archaeological and geological context of human remains, along with
study of disease across history, space, and a variety of species. His publications include
17 books and over 190 chapters and articles, including Food in Antiquity: A Survey
of the Diet of Early Peoples (1998), and Handbook of Archaeological Sciences (2005).
Michele R. Buzon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University. Her
research interests include the interplay of health and identity with sociopolitical
changes in Nile Valley during the New Kingdom and Napatan periods using
paleopathological, archaeological, and isotopic methods. Recent publications include
Buzon and Bowen (2010) “Oxygen isotope analysis of migration in the Nile Valley,”
Archaeometry, and Buzon and Bombak (2010) “Dental Disease in the Nile
Valley during the New Kingdom,” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.
Francisca Alves Cardoso is Lecturer in Biological Anthropology in the Institute of
Philosophy and Human Sciences in the Federal University of Pará, Brazil, and a
Research Fellow of CRIA—Centre for Research in Anthropology, Portugal. Her most
recent research focuses on the importance of socioeconomic and cultural variables in
the interpretation of human remains, having previously discussed gender and activityrelated issues as her PhD topic: “A Portrait of Gender in Two 19th/20th Portuguese
Populations: A Paleopathological Perspective.”
Della Collins Cook is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. Her interests
include paleopathology, mortuary practices and history of physical anthropology.
While she is an Americanist, she has worked with remains from South Africa, Egypt,
Greece, and Portugal. She and her colleagues have published on dental modification,
isotopic evidence for nutrition, and biological distance. Her recent publications
include The Myth of Syphilis: A Natural History of North American Treponematosis
(2005, co-authored with Mary Lucas Powell), and “The Evolution of American
Paleopathology,” in Bioarchaeology: The Contextual Study of Human Remains,
Buikstra and Beck, eds. (2006).
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Katharina Dittmar is Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology at SUNY—Buffalo.
Her research focus includes the evolution of parasitism and evolutionary biology. Her
recent publications include “Rapid evolution of protein kinase alters the sensitivity to
viral inhibitors,” Nature Structural and Molecular Biology (2009) (co-authored with
S. Rothenburg et al.), and Dittmar et al. (2006) “Molecular phylogenetic analysis of
nycteribiid and streblid batflies (Diptera: Brachycera, Calyptratae): Implications for
host association and phylogeographic origins,” in Molecular Phylogenetics and
Evolution.
Keith Dobney is Sixth Century Chair of Human Palaeoecology in the newly
established Archaeology Department at the University of Aberdeen, UK. The main
material focus of his work is the study of animal (including human) remains, his
principal research being: the origins and spread of agriculture, migration and dispersal,
palaeoeconomy, palaeopathology and palaeoepidemiology. He is currently one of two
project leaders of a CNRS-funded Projet de Groupement De Recherche Européan
(GDRE): “BIOARCH- Bioarchaeological Investigations of the Interactions between
Holocene Human Societies and their Environments,” and the Director of a similar
(Co-Reach funded) Chinese-European research grouping (EUCH-BIOARCH).
James H. Gosman is Adjunct Assistant Professor in Anthropology at The Ohio
State University, and an orthopedic surgeon by training. His research interest
encompasses skeletal biology and bioarchaeology, with particular focus on human
trabecular bone ontogeny and locomotor development. Recent publications include,
Gosman and Ketcham (2009), “Patterns in ontogeny of human trabecular bone
from SunWatch village in the prehistoric Ohio Valley: General features of
microarchitectural change,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, and Gosman
and Stout (2010) “Current concepts in skeletal biology,” in A Companion to
Biological Anthropology, ed. Larsen.
Anne L. Grauer is Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. Her
research interests include issues of gender in human skeletal analyses, particularly in
North American historic and British medieval populations. She has served as an
Associate Editor for the AJPA and on the Executive Board of the AAPA. She is
currently the Past-President of the Paleopathology Association. Her publications
include Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing History Through Skeletal Analysis (editor)
(1995), Sex and Gender in Paleopathological Perspective (edited with Stuart-Macadam)
(1998), and most recently, Fitch, Grauer, and Augustine (2010), “Lead Isotope
Ratios: Tracking the Migration of European Americans to Grafton, Illinois in the
19th Century,” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.
Charlotte Henderson is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of
Archaeology, Durham University (U.K.). She is a member of the International Working
Group on methods for recording entheseal changes (EC) (http://www.uc.pt/en/
cia/msm/msm_after). Her research focuses on quantitative methods for studying EC
along with their etiology, particularly pathological. Her Ph.D. dissertation (2009) was
titled “Musculo-skeletal stress markers in bioarchaeology: indicators of activity levels
or human variation? A re-analysis and interpretation.”
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Margaret A. Judd is Associate Professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s Department
of Anthropology. She is currently excavating a Byzantine crypt at Mount Nebo in
Jordan, following several years of excavation in Sudan and Jordan. Research interests
include trauma and health consequences of social, ideological and technological
change. Most recent publications include Growing up Gabati (in press), and “Pubic
symphyseal face eburnation: An Egyptian sport story?” International Journal of
Osteoarchaeology (2010).
Robert Jurmain is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at San Jose State University,
California. His research focus concerns paleopathology of humans and nonhuman
primates, most specifically, degenerative joint disease and trauma. He has authored
articles in numerous peer-reviewed journals and contributions to edited volumes. He
is author of Stories from the Skeleton: Behavioral Reconstruction in Human Osteology
(1999) as well as coauthor of three textbooks in physical anthropology and archaeology,
now in a total of 30 editions.
M. Anne Katzenberg is Professor of Physical Anthropology, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Canada. Her research focuses on reconstructing past diet and
health using stable isotopes, and refining interpretations of stable isotope data. She is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and co-editor of the book, Biological Anthropology
of the Human Skeleton (2000), with Shelley R. Saunders. She has published numerous
stable isotope studies of past peoples from North and South America, Europe and Asia.
Tomasz Kozłowski is Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, at Nicolaus
Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). His interests include bioarchaeology and
paleopathology, focusing on the early mediaeval settlement complex in Kałdus
(Poland) and studying the relics of Neolithic settlement in Catalhoyuk in Turkey. He
is a member of the Global History of Health Project. His recent publications include
“Human bone remains,” in W. Chudziak (ed.), Early Mediaeval Skeleton Cemetery in
Kaldus, Mons Sancti Laurentii, Vol. 5 (2010), and co-editor with M. Grupa, Kwidzyn
Cathedral—The Mystery of the Crypts (2009).
Patricia M. Lambert is Professor of Biological Anthropology and Associate Dean of
Research in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah State University.
She served as Associate Editor of the AJPA from 2002 to 2008 and Executive
Committee Member for the American Association of Physical Anthropologists from
2006 to 2009. Her research focuses on prehistoric health and violence in the Americas.
Recent publications include “Health versus fitness: competing themes in the origins
and spread of agriculture,” Current Anthropology (2009).
Larisa M. Lehmer is Research Associate in the Dermatopathology division of Central
Coast Pathology Consultants in San Luis Obispo, CA, and investigates topics in
dermatopathology and osteopathology. Her publications include “MEC of the
parotid gland presenting as periauricular cystic nodules,” Journal of Cutaneous
Pathology, “Expectorated rhabdomyosarcoma: case report and review of the literature,”
Human Pathology, and “Cutaneous metastasis of osteosarcoma in the scalp” American
Journal of Dermatopathology.
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John R. Lukacs is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Oregon
in Eugene, OR. His research focuses on the paleopathology and dental anthropology
of prehistoric and living South Asians. Recent publications appear in: Current
Anthropology, Comparative Dental Morphology, and Clinical Oral Investigations.
A monograph on the bioarchaeology of early Holocene foragers of India is nearing
completion for publication in British Archaeological Reports.
Niels Lynnerup is Professor of Forensic Anthropology, and head of the Unit of
Forensic Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. His research comprises both
the living (photogrammetry, gait analyses) as well as the dead (paleodemography, stable
isotopes and CT-scanning and 3-D visualisation techniques). Key publications include
“Computed tomography scanning and three-dimensional visualization of mummies
and bog bodies,” Advances in Human Paleopathology (2008), and “Mummies,”
Yearbook of Physical Anthropology (2007). He has recently served as the Vice-president
of the Paleopathology Association and is co-editor of the Journal of Paleopathology.
Simon Mays is Human Skeletal Biologist for English Heritage. His research covers
all areas of archaeological human remains. He is currently an Associate Editor for the
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Key publications include Advances in
Human Palaeopathology (edited with R. Pinhasi 2008), and The Archaeology of Human
Remains, second edition (2010).
George R. Milner is Professor of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University.
His osteological research focuses on paleopathology (including trauma) and
paleodemography, and includes the development of new means of skeletal age estimation
for both archaeological and forensic purposes. Recent publications include (with
Buikstra and Wiant) “Archaic burial sites in the midcontinent,” in Archaic Societies:
Diversity and Complexity Across the Midcontinent (Emerson, McElrath, and Fortier,
eds., 2009), and (with Wood and Boldsen) “Advances in paleodemography,” in
Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton, 2nd edition (Katzenberg and Saunders,
eds., 2008).
Piers D. Mitchell is Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He has a
doctorate in medical history and is also a medical practitioner specializing in children’s
orthopedic surgery. His recent publications include Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare,
Wounds and the Medieval Surgeon (2004) and Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment
Britain and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology and Display (2011).
Donald J. Ortner is Biological Anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology,
Smithsonian Institution. His research emphasis is on disease in archeological human
skeletal remains. He has done fieldwork in Jordan and has conducted research projects
in the United States, Europe, and Australia. From 1999 to 2001, he was president of
the Paleopathology Association. Recent major publications include: Identification of
Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains (2003), EB I Tombs and Burials
of Bâb edh-Dhrâ, Jordan (2008) with Frohlich, and “Ecology, culture and disease in
past human populations,” (with Schutkowski), in H. Schutkowski, ed, Between Biology
and Culture (2008).
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Christina Papageorgopoulou is Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at
the Workgroup of Palaeogenetics, Institute of Anthropology, Johannes GutenbergUniversity, Mainz, Germany and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Evolutionary
Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her main interests center on new
methods in palaeopathology, variability in human growth and development in past
populations, and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in southeastern Europe from a
genetic perspective. She is currently the editor of the Bulletin der Schweizerischen
Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, and the Newsletter of the American Dermatoglyphics
Association.
Mary Lucas Powell is Former Director/Curator of the W. S. Webb Museum of
Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, and Editor Emerita of the Paleopathology
Newsletter. Her research has focused on the relationship between diet and dental
health, and the natural history and paleoepidemiology of treponemal disease and
tuberculosis in prehistoric Native American populations in the Southeastern United
States and Torre de Palma, a late Classical/medieval site in eastern Portugal. She
recently published The Myth of Syphilis: The Natural History of Treponematosis in
North America (2005) with co-author, D.C. Cook.
Bruce D. Ragsdale is Smithsonian Research Associate and Adjunct Professor of
Anthropology at Arizona State University, and a practicing pathologist. He apprenticed
with Walter Putschar at Massachusetts General Hospital, worked a decade with Lent
Johnson at AFIP, has been on the faculty of nine medical schools. He has co-chaired
20 workshops at Paleopathology Association meetings, established a bone collection
at ASU, and continues to contribute academically at local, state and international
levels while directing Western Dermatopathology in California.
Rebecca Redfern is Curator of Human Osteology at the Museum of London. Her
research interests include trauma, lifecourse and gender studies, focusing on Iron Age
and Roman communities in Britain. Publications include: Spitalfields: A
Bioarchaeological Study of Health and Disease From a Medieval London Cemetery
(MoLA Monograph), and “A re-appraisal of the evidence for violence in the late Iron
Age human remains from Maiden Castle hillfort, Dorset, England” in Proceedings of
the Prehistoric Society.
Karl J. Reinhard is Professor of Environmental Archaeology, School of Natural
Resources, University of Nebraska. His research interests include archaeoparasitology,
palynology, and paleonutrition. He is the author and co-author of numerous publications, including most recently: Vinton, Perry, Reinhard, Santoro, and Teixeira-Santos
(2009) “Impact of empire expansion on household diet: the Inka in northern Chile’s
Atacama Desert,” in PLoS ONE 4: e8069, and Araújo, Reinhard, Ferreira, and Gardner
(2008) “Parasites: probes for evidence of prehistoric human migrations,” in Trends in
Parasitology.
Charlotte Roberts is Full Professor of Bioarchaeology at Durham University, U.K.,
Her research focuses on the interaction of people with their environments in the
past, the use of pathogen aDNA analysis to explore the origin and evolution of
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infections, the impact of air quality and mobility on health, and the Global History of
Health (Ohio State University). She is the author of numerous books and articles,
including most recently, Human Remains in Archaeology: A Handbook (2009), and
The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis. A Global View on a Reemerging Disease (2008),
co-authored with J. E. Buikstra.
Frank Rühli is Head of the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the Institute of
Anatomy, University of Zurich, Co-Heads the “Swiss MDiagnostic Imaging of
Mummy Project”, and is a research fellow of the Institute of History of Medicine,
University of Zurich. His research includes the development and use of imaging
techniques, the microevolution of anatomical variations in normal and pathological
tissues, and assessing the biological standard of living and state of health of conscripts
of the Swiss armed forces. He is the President of the German Society of Anthropology,
and Vice-President of the Swiss Society of Anthropology. His many publications
appear in both anthropological and medical journals.
Dong Hoon Shin is Associate Professor at Seoul National University. He has led
the Anthropology and Paleopathology Laboratory, Department of Anatomy/
Institute of Forensic Medicine. During the past decade, he has performed aDNA,
paleoparasitological, anthropometric and paleoradiological work on the samples from
archaeological fields of Korea. He was a scientific committee member of the Korean
Association of Physical Anthropologists and aDNA, 2010, in Munich, and is the
author of numerous articles.
Mark Spigelman is Visiting Professor, Department of International Health, Royal
Free and University College London Medical School, and Hebrew University Medical
School, Jerusalem, Department of Microbiology, and Associate Professor in the
Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv
University, Israel. His research centers on paleomicrobiology, survival of biomolecules,
the relationship between microbial diseases of the past and today, and developing
techniques for minimally destructive sampling of human remains. He is the author of
numerous articles, recently co-authoring with Hershkovitz et al. (2008), “Detection
and molecular characterization of 9000-Year-Old Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a
neolithic settlement in the eastern Mediterranean,” PlosOne.
Ann L.W. Stodder is Research Associate at the Field Museum of Natural History in
Chicago, Illinois. Her research, in the U.S. Southwest and various parts of Oceania,
addresses paleoepidemiology, mortuary ritual, and human taphonomy. She has
recently published two edited volumes: Reanalysis and Reinterpretation in
Southwestern Bioarchaeology (2008) and The Bioarchaeology of Individuals (2011).
Bethany L. Turner is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Georgia State University.
Her research focuses on multi-isotopic and osteological analyses of Pre-Columbian
Peruvian populations to reconstruct diet, residential mobility, and overall health
related to cultural transitions in ancient Andean imperial states. Recent publications
include “Partnerships, pitfalls, and ethical concerns in international bioarchaeology,”
in Agarwal and Glencross (eds.) Social Bioarchaeology (2010), and “Insights into
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immigration and social class at Machu Picchu, Peru based on oxygen, strontium and
lead isotopic analysis,” Journal of Archaeological Science (2009).
Beth Upex is Research Fellow in the newly established Archaeology Department
at the University of Aberdeen. She has a background in human and animal
osteoarchaeology and palaeopathology. Her PhD research explored the use of enamel
hypoplasia in caprines as a means of interpreting past climatic change and changing
animal husbandry practices. Her current research is focused on understanding various
aspects of animal domestication and other human/animal interactions through the
study of skeletal pathology.
Sébastien Villotte is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Exeter,
Department of Archaeology. His research focuses on human behavior during
European prehistory, including a significant component on methodology. In the last
two years, he co-organized four workshops on entheseal changes. His recent
publications include “Enthesopathies and activity patterns in the early medieval Great
Moravian population: Evidence of division of labour,” International Journal of
Osteoarchaeology (2010), and (with Castex, Couallier, Dutour, Knusel, and HenryGambier) “Enthesopathies as occupational stress markers: evidence from the upper
limb,” in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2010).
Tony Waldron is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University
College London. His research focuses on both methodological theoretical issues in bioarchaeology and paleopathology. His books include Counting the Dead (1994),
Paleoepidemiology: The Measure of Disease in the Past (2007), and Palaeopathology (2009).
Johann Wanek is Medical Physicist Assistant at the Anatomical Institute of the
University of Zurich. He is particularly interested in X-ray imaging and its impact on
ancient DNA using a Monte Carlo based simulation, and the physicochemical
properties of mummified tissues. He is currently a reviewer at the AUTOMED 2010
(Automation in Medicine), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.
Darlene A. Weston is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the
University of British Columbia and Associated Scientist at the Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology. Her research focuses on the biocultural interpretation
of infectious disease and stress indicators and the interactions between health and
paleodemography in European and Caribbean populations. Key publications include
papers in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the Journal of Human
Evolution and the Journal of Forensic Sciences.
Henryk W. Witas is Professor and Head of Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty
of Biomedical Sciences and Postgraduate Education at the Medical University of
Lodz, Poland. His research concentrates on allelic determinants associated or
responsible for pathologic phenotype of monogene and polygene diseases, and
those responsible for susceptibility to infectious diseases in historic and prehistoric
gene pools. His recent publications include Witas et al. (2007) “Extremely high
frequency of autoimmune-predisposing alleles in medieval specimens” J. Zhejiang
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Univ Sci B; and Witas et al. (2010) “Changes in frequency of IDDM-associated HLA
DQB, CTLA4 and INS alleles,” International Journal of Immunogenetics.
Michael R. Zimmerman is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Pennsylvania and Adjunct Professor of Biology at Villanova University. He was recently
a Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester’s KNH Centre for Biomedical
Egyptology. He is also a retired pathologist. His research interest is in mummy paleopathology. His most recent publication is “Cancer: A new disease, an old disease, or
something in between?” with R.A. David, in Nature Reviews Cancer (2010).
Molly K. Zuckerman is Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University. Her
research focuses on the evolution and social and ecological history of acquired syphilis
in early modern England, the evolution of infectious disease and cancer, epidemiological
transitions, and the bioarchaeology of gender, inequality, and identity. Recent
publications include Harper, Zuckerman, Harper M, Kingston, and Armelagos (in
press), “The origin and antiquity of syphilis revisited: an appraisal of Old World PreColumbian evidence for treponemal infection,” Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, and
Harper, Zuckerman, and Armelagos (in press), “Correspondence: a possible (but not
probable?) case of treponemal disease (Response to Mays et al. 2010),” International
Journal of Osteoarchaeology.
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Acknowledgements
I extend my heart-felt thanks to the contributors who so quickly and enthusiastically
agreed to participate in this project. Their commitment to the field of paleopathology
and respect for scientific discourse has made it an honor to be their colleague. Deep
gratitude also goes to the chapter reviewers who helped strengthen the volume and
shared each author’s desire to represent the promise of our field. I thank Rosalie
Robertson, Senior Editor at Wiley-Blackwell, for the humbling invitation to edit this
volume, and Julia Kirk, Project Editor, for cheerfully answering each of my gazillion
questions. And last, but not least, many thanks are owed to Alec McAulay, Project
Manager, whose keen eye and sense of humor made the final editing and production
details enjoyable to complete.
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