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Paleoradiology in the Service of Zoopaleopathology

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Paleoradiology

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Prehistorians and medical historians have been interested in finding and describing evidence of diseases in human remains since the 19th century, but in contrast animal remains have been neglected. Admittedly, ancient nonhuman pathology was brought into reviews by Moodie (1923) and Pales (1930), and a larger study appeared by 1960 (Tasnádi 1960). Alas, the latter work by Tasnádi (1960), “Az Osállatok Pathologiája,” appeared only in Hungarian and has been largely ignored. So it was not until 1980 that a general introductory work appeared on “Animal Diseases” (Baker and Brothwell 1980), which is slowly being updated by other findings of pathology and new discussions (Brothwell 1995; Luff and Brothwell 1993).

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Brothwell, D. (2008). Paleoradiology in the Service of Zoopaleopathology. In: Paleoradiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48833-0_5

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