Identification of Paleopathological Conditions in a Non-Adult Population from Roman Age Sirmium, Serbia: A Bioarchaeological and Life History Approach
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Title
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Identification of Paleopathological Conditions in a Non-Adult Population from Roman Age Sirmium, Serbia: A Bioarchaeological and Life History Approach
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:c1aa3a5494bc:12039
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identifier
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12750
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Creator
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Brown, Matthew Anthony,
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Contributor
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Thomas H. McGovern
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Date
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2013
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Archaeology | Physical anthropology | Bioarchaeology | Childhood | Paleopathology | Roman | Serbia | Sirmium
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Abstract
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The purpose of this dissertation is to assess the status of child health within the context of Late Roman Sirmium, Serbia (ca. 1 st - 6th Century CE) through the evaluation of multiple indicators of skeletal stress (porotic hyperostosis, enamel hyperplasia, and infectious disease). Children and other non-adults (infants and adolescents), for a number of reasons, have been "marginalized" within the fields of archaeology and bioarchaeology. Differential preservation, burial bias, incorrect identification children and non-adult bones and culturally focused definitions of children are among some of the reasons often cited for the lack of research specifically targeting these populations. This dissertation attempts to address this issue of marginalization and that of child morbidity and mortality during the Late Roman Period, recognizing that children and other non-adult cohorts represent important segments of archaeological skeletal populations that can add significant information on past human behavior.;The research employed by this thesis will take a holistic bioarchaeological approach by incorporating data from a variety of fields and methodologies, including archaeology, historical records, and environmental science. The primary data, however, will come directly from the analysis of non-adult skeletal material recovered from the Late Roman Period Cemetery, St. Sineros on the northeast border of Sirmium. This dissertation will use both qualitative, looking at the life histories of individuals, and quantitative data to reconstruct patterns of health and disease, in addition to Roman cultural practices (i.e. breastfeeding) that often dictated behaviors that directly influence the non-adult the late Roman Period in Sirmium.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Anthropology
