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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
Scurvy in the Land of Plenty: Pregnancy, Invisible Deficiency, and the Bones of Late Holocene California

Radiographic study reveals vitamin C deficiency in ancestral SF Bay Area mothers and infants, uncovering a nutritional crisis within a resource-rich landscape.

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