The backbone of Europe : health, diet, work and violence over two millennia / edited by Richard H. Steckel, Clark Spencer Larsen, Charlotte A. Roberts, Joerg Baten.

• The European History of Health Project : introduction to goals, materials, and methods / Richard H. Steckel, Clark Spencer Larsen, Charlotte Roberts, and Joerg Baten -- Contextual dimensions of health and lifestyle : isotopes, diet, migration, and the archaeological and historical records / Rimantas Jankauskas and Gisela Grupe -- Measuring community health using skeletal remains : a health index for Europe / Richard H. Steckel and Anna Kjellström -- The history of European oral health : evidence from dental caries and antemortem tooth loss / Ursula Witwer-Backofen and Felix Engel -- Proliferative periosteal reactions : assessment of trends in Europe over the past two millennia / Carina Marques, Vitor Matos, and Nicholas J. Meinzer -- Growth disruption in children : linear enamel hypoplasias / Zsolt Bereczki, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Antonia Marcsik, Nicholas Meinzer, and Joerg Baten--. 

• "Using human skeletal remains, this volume traces health, workload and violence in the European population over the past 2,000 years. Health was surprisingly good for people who lived during the early Medieval Period. The Plague of Justinian of the 6th century was ultimately beneficial for health because the smaller population had relatively more resources that contributed to better living conditions. Increasing population density and inequality in the following centuries imposed an unhealthy diet - poor in protein - on the European population. With the onset of the Little Ice Age in the late Middle Ages, a further health decline ensued, which was not reversed until the nineteenth century. While some aspects of health declined, other attributes improved. During the early modern period, interpersonal violence (outside of warfare) declined possibly because stronger states and institutions were able to enforce compromise and cooperation. European health over the past two millennia was hence multifaceted in nature"-- 

Ämnesord

Mänskliga kvarlevor  (sao)

Människoskelett  (sao)

Paleopatologi  (sao)

Paleopathology  (LCSH)

Human remains (Archaeology)  -- Europe -- Analysis (LCSH)

Human skeleton  -- Analysis (LCSH)

Social ecology  -- Europe -- History (LCSH)

Socialekologi  -- historia (sao)

Paleopathology  (LCSH)

Human remains (Archaeology)  (LCSH)

Human skeleton  (LCSH)

Europa  (sao)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

J.08 Arkeologi: osteologi

V:k Medicin: historia

Klassifikation

301.09 (DDC)

J.08 (kssb/8)

V:k (kssb/8)