Nutritional Factors in the Paleoepidemiology of Infectious Disease in the Ancient Atacama Desert

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Nutritional Factors in the Paleoepidemiology of Infectious Disease in the Ancient Atacama Desert

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The adoption of agriculture in ancient human groups is thought to have resulted in a general decline in health, as evidenced by an increase in skeletal markers of infectious disease and nutritional stress in post-transitional populations. It is possible that the reduction in dietary diversity and associated increase of micronutritional deficiencies that accompanied agriculture intensification and dependence on staple-crops contributed to an increased prevalence of infectious disease in the pa...

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Doctoral

Date created

2018

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Sohler, Anne

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/8311

Related subjects

paleopathology / scurvy / treponemal disease / tuberculosis / agricultural transition

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