Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Australian palaeopathology, survey methods, samples and ethnohistoric sources
- 3 Upper Pleistocene pathology of Sunda and Sahul: some possibilities
- 4 Pathology in late Pleistocene and early Holocene Australian hominids
- 5 Stress
- 6 Infectious disease
- 7 Osteoarthritis
- 8 Trauma
- 9 Neoplastic disease
- 10 Congenital malformations
- 11 Motupore: the palaeopathology of a prehistoric New Guinea island community
- 12 The old and the new: Australia's changing patterns of health
- References
- Index
3 - Upper Pleistocene pathology of Sunda and Sahul: some possibilities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Australian palaeopathology, survey methods, samples and ethnohistoric sources
- 3 Upper Pleistocene pathology of Sunda and Sahul: some possibilities
- 4 Pathology in late Pleistocene and early Holocene Australian hominids
- 5 Stress
- 6 Infectious disease
- 7 Osteoarthritis
- 8 Trauma
- 9 Neoplastic disease
- 10 Congenital malformations
- 11 Motupore: the palaeopathology of a prehistoric New Guinea island community
- 12 The old and the new: Australia's changing patterns of health
- References
- Index
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- Palaeopathology of Aboriginal AustraliansHealth and Disease across a Hunter-Gatherer Continent, pp. 21 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995