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Shuffling nags, lame ducks : the archaeology of animal disease /

By: Bartosiewicz, L.
Contributor(s): Gál, Erika.
Publisher: Oxford : Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books ; David Brown Book Company, 2013Description: viii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text $2 rdacontent | text | still image Media type: unmediated $2 rdamedia | unmediated Carrier type: volume $2 rdacarrier | volumeISBN: 9781782971894; 9781782971894:; 1782971890.Subject(s): Paleopathology | Animal remains (Archaeology) | Animals -- DiseasesDDC classification: 930.1
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction -- Basic concepts -- History of studying pathological animal remains -- Differences between human and animal paleopathology -- Methodology -- Growth, development and aging -- Traumatic lesions -- Inflammatory diseases and bone -- Arthropathies -- Pathological lesions in working animals -- Diseases connected to the environment -- Dental anomalies and oral pathology -- Inherited disorders -- Neoplastic and tumorous bones -- Pathological changes in bird bones (Erica Gál) -- Pathological lesions in fish remains -- Concluding remarks.
Summary: This text provides an invaluable guide to the investigation of trauma and disease in archaeozoological assemblages. It provides a clear methodological approach, and describes and explains the wide range of traumatic lesions, infections, diseases, inherited disorders and other pathological changes and anomalies that can be identified.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-288) and indexes.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Basic concepts -- History of studying pathological animal remains -- Differences between human and animal paleopathology -- Methodology -- Growth, development and aging -- Traumatic lesions -- Inflammatory diseases and bone -- Arthropathies -- Pathological lesions in working animals -- Diseases connected to the environment -- Dental anomalies and oral pathology -- Inherited disorders -- Neoplastic and tumorous bones -- Pathological changes in bird bones (Erica Gál) -- Pathological lesions in fish remains -- Concluding remarks.

This text provides an invaluable guide to the investigation of trauma and disease in archaeozoological assemblages. It provides a clear methodological approach, and describes and explains the wide range of traumatic lesions, infections, diseases, inherited disorders and other pathological changes and anomalies that can be identified.

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