ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture 6: The Black Death II
16 Oct 2018
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Modern vs. black death: modern one single bubo, symptoms apathy, stupor, depression, black death/ justinian, multiple buboes and black pustules, symptoms hysteria, extreme thirst, pain, headache, vomiting. It has been established in the southwestern portion of america. Infectious disease will actually kill more people during a famine as opposed to starvation. Key issues: learning about disease in the ancient past, types of evidence (paleopathology, limitations of evidence. Types of remaisn that we have from the past: mummies soft tissue evidence, skeletal and dental remains, dna from microorganisms, human mummies egypt, japan, southwestern us, andean area, australia and. Melanesia, alaska (can be due to permafrost: can see lesions on skin and the mummies may have the infectious agent preserved themselves, only found in a few places in the world and only from some time periods. Natural mummification: anaerobic conditions, ba(cid:272)teria (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)reathe (cid:449)ithout the o(cid:454)(cid:455)ge(cid:374), a(cid:374)d so it slo(cid:449)s do(cid:449)(cid:374) the de(cid:272)o(cid:373)positio(cid:374) process, the skin turns to leather.
