Anthropology.net92% of children in Europe’s largest Copper Age burial showed skeletal signs of respiratory disease — including possible TB markers from 5,000 years ago. A rare population-level view into prehistoric childhood health. #Paleopathology #CopperAge #Bioarchaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/how-copper-age-children-breathed
Scurvy in the San Francisco Bay Area, in infants buried millennia ago. New bioarchaeology shows that in Late Holocene California, available food ≠ consumed food, especially for pregnant women. #Bioarchaeology #Paleopathology #IndigenousCalifornia https://www.anthropology.net/p/scurvy-in-the-land-of-plenty-pregnancy
Scientific FrontlineGenetic analyses of ancient skeletons from a megalithic tomb in France reveal a dramatic population collapse during the "Neolithic decline" around 3000 BC, which was subsequently followed by the immigration and genetic replacement by a distinct population from southern Europe.
Archaeogenetics #Archaeology #Paleopathology #EvolutionaryBiology, #BiologicalAnthropology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/arch04202601.html
Archaeogenetics #Archaeology #Paleopathology #EvolutionaryBiology, #BiologicalAnthropology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/arch04202601.html
A tooth from a 14th-century Bolivian mummy just yielded the oldest known Streptococcus pyogenes genome — proving scarlet fever’s bacterium circulated in the Americas long before European contact. #AncientDNA #Paleopathology #Archaeogenetics https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-tooth-from-a-chullpa-rewrites-the
Three children in Neolithic Vietnam show classic signs of congenital treponematosis — but the evidence points to yaws, not syphilis. A new study challenges a foundational assumption in ancient disease research. #Paleopathology #Treponematosis #Bioarchaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/congenital-syphilis-was-supposed
How old was this skeleton, really? A new paper argues that disease alters the very bone markers used to estimate age at death — creating a methodological loop few researchers have addressed head-on. #Paleopathology #Bioarchaeology #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-a-skeleton-lies-about-its-age
Cluster ROOTSAt what age did a prehistoric human die? Are the pathological alterations to the skeleton due to old age or to disease? An international study discusses solutions to fundamental challenges in the field of paleopathology: https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/news/039-paleopathology
#paleopathology #archaeology pastsocieties #DiseaseRelatedAge #age_related_disease
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📷 Sara Jagiolla, Uni Kiel
A 2,000-year-old burial in the Philippines is rewriting what we know about scurvy in tropical Southeast Asia — and what ancient communities owed their most vulnerable members. #Paleopathology #HumanEvolution #Bioarchaeology https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-young-man-in-the-philippines-2000
Omni LettersThe Oldest Jaw Surgery in the World.
CT Scan Reveals Complex Jaw Surgery Performed 2,500 Years Ago on a Woman from the Pazyryk Culture.
Read more: https://omniletters.com/the-oldest-jaw-surgery-in-the-world/
#Archaeology #AncientMedicine #AncientSurgery #JawSurgery #ArchaeologicalDiscovery #AncientHistory #HumanHistory #Pazyryk #PazyrykCulture #Scythian #Siberia #AltaiMountains #MedicalHistory #Bioarchaeology #Anthropology #Paleopathology #CTScan #ScienceNews #ScientificDiscovery #AncientCivilizations #AncientTechnology
A 5,500-year-old genome from Colombia pushes the history of Treponema pallidum deep into the past, challenging simple origin stories for syphilis and revealing a long, diverse treponemal presence in the Americas. #AncientDNA #Paleopathology #HumanHistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-pathogen-older-than-history-tracing
