Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians - Health and Disease Across a Hunter-Gatherer Continent

Klappentext This book is a compelling study of the health of Australia's original inhabitants over 50!000 years. Zusammenfassung Using data collected from all parts of the continent! this 1995 book is a study of the health of Australia's original inhabitants over 50!000 years. A broad-ranging book offering fresh insight into the study of Australian prehistory and Aboriginal culture! the book also illuminates the origins and ecology of human disease. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. General methodology; 2. The Upper Pleistocene pathology of Sunda and Sahul; 3. Pathology in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Australian hominids; 4. Stress in traditional Aboriginal society; 5. Infectious disease; 6. Osteoarthritis; 7. Trauma; 8. Dental disease; 9. Neoplastic disease; 10. Congenital disease; 11. The pathology of a Late Holocene Papua New Guinea community (Motupore); 12. A personal view of the reburial issue in Australia; 13. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Webb
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521110495
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11049-5
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Australia, Anthropology, MEDICAL / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, History of Medicine, Physical anthropology