ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Iron-Deficiency Anemia, Hyperostosis, Tooth Pathology
5 Apr 2018
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Disease - physical/biological problems at the root of an illness. Skeletal and dental pathology: actual skeletons of people who have suffered from diseases in the past. It is reconstructive: no symptoms and almost nothing in biotech tests, no control in variables that may affect the representation of the disease so it cannot be reconstructed. No malaria in arctic - no outbreaks in the arctic. It is a bunch of samples taken together: not 100% representation of a living population. Signs of disease in the bones: not all diseases result in changes to the skeleton or the teeth, eg. Iron deficiency anemia: hemoglobin is absorbed from food and plants decrease absorption. Insufficient details, two diseases overlapping in one individual, might be illnesses instead of disease, might be supernatural. Limits ability to use ancient text on their own. Fossilized faeces: dna, symptoms of infections, pathogens, parasites in soil samples (worms, diseases in animals - relative to human disease, eg.
