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By Tony Waldron

How will we establish and degree human affliction long ago? within the absence of soppy tissue, paleoepidemiologists have constructed creative methods of assessing sickness and mortality in archaeological populations. during this quantity, the foremost equipment of epidemiology are defined for non-specialists, exhibiting the significance of learning occurrence over prevalence, changes wanted in learning earlier teams, the best way to evaluate stories, and the hazards of assessing career established upon bone facts. A version for making plans a formal paleoepidemiological examine concludes the amount. either as an creation to epidemiology for archaeologists, and as a primer on archaeological research for epidemiologists, this booklet should still serve the wishes of either populations.

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