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Re: Pre-contact diseases anyone???
SHICKLEY@VM.TEMPLE.EDU
Tue, 11 Jul 95 11:47:52 EDT
In article <173D613482S86.SHICKLEY@VM.TEMPLE.EDU>
SHICKLEY@VM.TEMPLE.EDU writes:
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>In article <3tlq8o$d9v@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
>rkeeologi@aol.com (Rkeeologi) writes:
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>>>Subject: Re: Pre-contact diseases anyone???
>>>From: whelko@aol.com (Whelko)
>>>Date: 7 Jul 1995 17:39:22 -0400
>>>Message-ID: <3tk9ia$159@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
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>>>In addition to the smallpox story, I also remember hearing that
>>rheumatoid
>>>arthritis was unknown in precontact americas-I suppose from bone
>>evidence,
>>>but don't really remember. Can anyone confirm/deny this?
>>>Thanks,
>>>Chris Welch
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>>Chris, there is fairly extensive evidence for arthritis in New World
>>populations, and is one of the things I'm looking for in a population from
>>7000 B.P.
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>>My paleopathology text is in the car, and as I'm still in my p.j.'s, I'm
>>not about to run out and get it... I'll post cites later.
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>>MB Williams
>>Wesleyan
>>rkeeologi@aol.com/ghostofmb@wesleyan.edu
>>*Some people are so educated they can bore you on almost any subject* ~
>>Anonymous
>MB is correct about this. There is a pretty good amount of medical/
>paleopathological literature on this topic. She'll probably be
>out of her PJ's before me, but I can post a few refs too if
>you would like.
>T. Shickley (shickley@vm.temple.edu)
>
The following references relate to arthritis in the New World
from a paleopathological point of view.
Authors
Bridges PS.
Institution
Department of Anthropology, Queens College and Graduate
Center CUNY, Flushing, New York 11367.
Title
Vertebral arthritis and physical activities in the
prehistoric southeastern United States.
Source
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 93(1):83-93,
1994 Jan.
Authors
Rothschild BM. Woods RJ.
Institution
Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, Youngstown 44512.
Title
Geographic distribution of calcium pyrophosphate (CPPD)
deposition disease in pre-Columbian North America:
independent validation of CPPD criteria.
Source
Clinical & Experimental Rheumatology. 11(3):315-8, 1993
May-Jun.
Authors
Rothschild BM. Woods RJ.
Institution
Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, Youngstown 44512.
Title
Character of precolumbian North American
spondyloarthropathy.
Source
Journal of Rheumatology. 19(8):1229-35, 1992 Aug.
Authors
Bridges PS.
Institution
Department of Anthropology, Queens College, Flushing, New
York.
Title
Degenerative joint disease in hunter-gatherers and
agriculturalists from the Southeastern United States.
Source
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 85(4):379-91,
1991 Aug.
Authors
Rothschild BM. Woods RJ.
Institution
Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, Youngstown, OH 44512.
Title
Symmetrical erosive disease in Archaic Indians: the origin
of rheumatoid arthritis in the New World?.
Source
Seminars in Arthritis & Rheumatism. 19(5):278-84, 1990
Apr.
Authors
Rogers JM. Dieppe PA.
Title
Symmetrical erosive arthritis in Ohio woodland indians
[comment].
Source
Journal of Rheumatology. 16(7):1012-3, 1989 Jul.
Authors
Bridges PS.
Institution
Department of Anthropology, Queens College, Flushing, New
York 11367.
Title
Spondylolysis and its relationship to degenerative joint
disease in the prehistoric southeastern United States.
Source
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 79(3):321-9,
1989 Jul.
Authors
Woods RJ. Rothschild BM.
Institution
Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, OH.
Title
Population analysis of symmetrical erosive arthritis in
Ohio Woodland Indians (1200 years ago) [see comments].
Source
Journal of Rheumatology. 15(8):1258-63, 1988 Aug.
Authors
Domen RE.
Title
Peleopathological evidence of rheumatoid arthritis
[letter].
Source
JAMA. 246(17):1899, 1981 Oct 23-30.
Authors
Short CL.
Title
The antiquity of rheumatoid arthritis.
Source
Arthritis & Rheumatism. 17(3):193-205, 1974 May-Jun.
Hope these and MBW's references help your efforts.
Dr. Tim Shickley (shickley@vm.temple.edu)
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