Osteoarthritis, labour division, and occupational specialization of the Late Shang China - insights from Yinxu (ca. 1250 - 1046 B.C.).

Autor: Hua Zhang, Deborah C Merrett, Zhichun Jing, Jigen Tang, Yuling He, Hongbin Yue, Zhanwei Yue, Dongya Y Yang

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 5, p e0176329 (2017)

This research investigates the prevalence of human osteoarthritis at Yinxu, the last capital of the Late Shang dynasty (ca. 1250-1046 B.C.), to gain insights about lifeways of early urban populations in ancient China. A total of 167 skeletal remains

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Possible Case of Glanders in a Late-Nineteenth- or Early-Twentieth- Century Mennonite Woman in Manitoba, Canada

Autor: Deborah C. Merrett, Christopher Meiklejohn, Roland M. Sawatzky

Publikováno v: Bioarchaeology International. 3:240-261

This article uses bioarchaeological and biocultural analyses to explore the life history and health status of an older Mennonite woman recovered from an unmarked grave in southeastern Manitoba, dated to the late nine-teenth or early twentieth century

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https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2019.1015

Approaching ancient disease from a One Health perspective:Interdisciplinary review for the investigation of zoonotic brucellosis

Autor: Joseph P. Cassidy, Rebecca H. A. Oakes, Deborah C. Merrett, Robin Bendrey, G. Michael Taylor, Guillaume Fournié

Publikováno v: Bendrey, R, Cassidy, J, Fournié, G, Merrett, D C, Oakes, R & Taylor, G M 2019, ' Approaching ancient disease from a One Health perspective : Interdisciplinary review for the investigation of zoonotic brucellosis ', International Journal of Osteoarchaeology . https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2837

Today, brucellosis is the most common global bacterial zoonosis, bringing with it a range of significant health and economic consequences, yet it is rarely identified from the archaeological record. Detection and understanding of past zoonoses could

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11820/7b143dde-9f03-454d-9195-455c279e8365

Enamel hypoplasia in Northeast China: Evidence from Houtaomuga

Autor: Xiaoming Xiao, Lixin Wang, Dong Wei, Hong Zhu, Deborah C. Merrett, Dongya Y. Yang, Hua Zhang, Quanchao Zhang

Publikováno v: Quaternary International. 405:11-21

The importance of the study of archaeological sites outside the Yangtze and Yellow River Valleys has been increasingly recognized as these peoples also played important roles in the formation of Chinese civilization. In Northeast China the boundary b

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.004

Possible case of pressure resorption associated with osteoarthritis in human skeletal remains from ancient China

Autor: Deborah C. Merrett, Hua Zhang, Evan Hardy, Hong Zhu, Quanchao Zhang, Dongya Y. Yang

Publikováno v: International journal of paleopathology. 24

Osteoarthritis, one of the most common pathological conditions observed in human skeletal remains, is traditionally thought to only affect the structures within the joint capsule. We examined the osteoarthritic distal femora of an individual from Anc

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30245227