[BOOK][B] Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture

GJ Armelagos, MN Cohen - 1984 - researchgate.net
When this book was first published in 1984, it had an impact far beyond what we (or the
reviewers of the time) expected. It contained a good deal of data that are still relevant. But far
more important, the book established a number of precedents in uses of paleopathology to
address archaeological issues and interpreta-tions of prehistory. The conference resulted
from the confluence of two areas of research that previously had had little interaction. The
first was the statement of a new interpretation of prehistory and particularly the emergence of�…