#paleopathology — Public Fediverse posts

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

Genetic 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

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

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

The 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

A Byzantine child buried 900 years ago in Aphrodisias shows signs of a rare bone disease, Caffey disease, offering new insight into childhood health, care, and resilience in medieval Anatolia. #Bioarchaeology #Byzantine #Osteology #Paleopathology https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-swollen-legacy-the-byzantine-child

Ancient Egyptian skull shows evidence of cancer, surgical treatment - Enlarge (credit: Tondini, Isidro, Camarós, 2024.)

The 4,000-ye... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2025113 #forensicarchaeology #paleo-oncology #paleopathology #archaeology #medicine #science

Malformed #trilobites from the Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian of Australia: most include examples of injuries from either failed #predation or moulting complications as well as a mangled carcass is ascribed to either successful predation or post-mortem #scavenging

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16634 via @PeerJ #palaeontology #paleopathology #paleozoic #fossils

From 15 Feb: Archaeologists found evidence of trepanation on medieval woman’s skull - Enlarge / This skull of a 50-year-old-ish medieval woman, circa 6th to 8th century, shows ... https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/t-is-for-trepanation-this-medieval-woman-had-two-brain-surgeries-skull-shows/ #archaeology #bio-archaeology #ct-scanning #gaming-&-culture #history-of-medicine #osteoarchaeology #paleopathology #scanning-electron-microscopy #science #trepanation

Archaeologists found evidence of trepanation on medieval woman’s skull - Enlarge / This skull of a 50-year-old-ish medieval woman, circa 6th to ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1917619 #scanningelectronmicroscopy #historyofmedicine #osteoarchaeology #gaming&culture #bioarchaeology #paleopathology #archaeology #trepanation #ctscanning #science

Hi! #Introduction We are the @PaleoParaDive team @ the Institute of #EvolutionaryBiology at the Faculty of #Biology at the University of #Warsaw. We study the impact of #extinction and #climate warming on #parasite-host interactions and #disease in deep time. Our favorite tools for this purpose: #fossils #invertebrate #paleopathology #parasitology #vertebrate #coprolites #paleobiology #paleontology #modelling #phylogenetics