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Paleopathologies of the vertebral column in medieval skeletons

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2008
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Hofmann, M. I., Böni, T., Alt, K., Woitek, U., & Rühli, F. J. (2008). Paleopathologies of the vertebral column in medieval skeletons. Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 66, 1–17. http://www.schweizerbart.de/j/anthropologischer-anzeiger/

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Paleopathological data provide valuable information about health, longevity and mortality in earlier human populations. We investigated the incidence of spinal pathologies on 54 individuals (1045 vertebrae and 18 sacral bones) that belong to a medieval skeletal series discovered in the Dalheim monastery (Northwest Germany) and compared them with contemporary and recent populations. The skeletons were analyzed with anthropological methods (sex and age determination), by macroscopic inspection, and, if pathologies of the spine and the s

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66

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1

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1

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17

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Journal Article

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2008-03

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2009-02-14

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0003-5548

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Der Titel des akzeptierten Manuskripts lautet "Postcranial paleopathological findings in a medieval skeletal series, (Dalheim, Germany) ca. 1100 AD".

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merlin-id:1745

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Hofmann, M. I., Böni, T., Alt, K., Woitek, U., & Rühli, F. J. (2008). Paleopathologies of the vertebral column in medieval skeletons. Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 66, 1–17. http://www.schweizerbart.de/j/anthropologischer-anzeiger/

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