What is Paleopathology?

What is paleopathology? This video is a brief overview of this subdiscipline of bioarchaeology, the study of human remains in the archaeological record. This video does include images of human remains for education purposes.
References
Buikstra, Jane, ed. 2019. Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains. Elsevier Inc.

Drancourt, Michel, Gerard Aboudharam, Michel Signoli, Olivier Dutour and Didier Raoult. 1998. “Detection of 400-year-old Yersinia pestis DNA in human dental pulp: An approach to the diagnosis of ancient septicemia.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95(21): 12637-12640.

Fletcher, H. A., Donoghue, H. D., Holton, J., Pap, I., & Spigelman, M. (2003). Widespread occurrence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA from 18th-19th century Hungarians. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 120(2), 144–152.

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