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Prehistoric stress in Australian aborigines : a palaeopathological study of a hunter-gatherer population

Title
Prehistoric stress in Australian aborigines : a palaeopathological study of a hunter-gatherer population / Stephen Webb.
Author
Webb, Stephen.
Publication
Oxford, England : B.A.R., 1989.

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Description
1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps; 30 cm.
Summary
Precontact Aboriginal health, disease, physiology and adaptation; based on data from skeletal collections; stress indicators - cribra orbitalia, dental hypoplasia and Harris lines; secondary stress indicators - non specific and treponemal, infection, osteoarthritis and trauma; nutritional, metabolic and/or physiological disorders; anaemia; behavioural and cultural factors; bone infection; palaeopathology.
Series Statement
BAR international series ; 490
Uniform Title
BAR international series ; 490.
Subject
  • Paleopathology > Australia
  • Aboriginal Australians > Diseases
  • Aboriginal Australians > Wounds and injuries
  • Aboriginal Australians > Antiquities
  • Bones > Diseases > Australia
  • Bones > Wounds and injuries
  • Stress (Physiology)
  • Hunting and gathering societies > Australia
  • Paleopathology
  • Paleopathology
  • Stress, Physiological > history
  • Bone Diseases > history
  • Health > Blood > Haematologic system
  • Health status > Dental health
  • Health status > Nutritional value of foods
  • Human biology > Physical anthropology > Palaeopathology
  • Human biology > Physiological adaptation
  • Aboriginal Australians > Antiquities
  • Aboriginal Australians > Diseases
  • Bones > Diseases
  • Bones > Wounds and injuries
  • Hunting and gathering societies
  • Aborigines
  • Paläopathologie
  • Stress
  • Wildbeuter
  • Ziekten
  • Aborigines
  • Prehistorie
  • Prehistoric peoples > Health > Australia
  • Aboriginal Australians > Health and hygiene
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Australia
  • Paléopathologie > Australie
  • Aborigènes d'Australie > Fléaux
  • Iwi taketake
  • Archaeology
  • Clinical medicine
  • Australia
  • Australia
  • Australia > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 162-197.
ISBN
  • 0860546276
  • 9780860546276
LCCN
89168295
OCLC
  • ocm19913101
  • 19913101
  • SCSB-1897237
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library