Osteoarchaeology, Biological Anthropology

ISBN: 9780907764328
Published by : Roman Society Publications
The present work offers an extensive introduction to the text and transmission of the ancient Latin version of the medical works "Therapeutica" and "On Fevers" of the great sixth-century Greek doctor Alexander of Tralles. The importance of the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780979227608
Published by : Stone Age Institute Press
The earliest traces of proto-human technology emerged over 2.5 million years ago on the African continent. Called the Oldowan after the famous site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, these technologies herald a major evolutionary shift in the human ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415220651
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Some ancients believed that disease and ill-health came from Pandora's jar, as prescribed in myth, whilst others saw man as the protagonist of his own ill-health. This collection of fourteen essays on health in antiquity takes an approach which... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415486934
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Some ancients believed that disease and ill-health came from Pandora's jar, as prescribed in myth, whilst others saw man as the protagonist of his own ill-health. This collection of fourteen essays on health in antiquity takes an approach which... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521818001
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This collection of selected (slightly revised) papers by Philip J van der Eijk, published during the 1990s and early 2000s, draws together his recent thinking on ancient Greek and Roman medicine and philosophy. The excellent forty-two page intr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780252029561
Published by : University of Illinois Press
To date, the pathbreaking medical contributions of the early Mesopotamians have been only vaguely understood. Due to the combined problems of an extinct language, gaps in the archaeological record, the complexities of pharmacy and medicine, an... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841718040
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This volume presents an analysis of the human remains found in the Middle Bronze Age cemetery of Sant' Abbdondio , Pompeii. More specifically, Mary Anne Tafuri applies ICP-MS trace element analysis to the human bone and teeth from the cemetery ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004144309
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This collection of papers, from the XIth International Hippocrates Colloquium held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2002, studies the Hippocratic writings in their relationship to the intellectual, social, cultural and literary cont... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004146969
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This book examines the knowledge and therapeutic use of opium and various species of poppy by physicians in ninth-century Baghdad (the leading medical centre then) as seen in key works by six outstanding physicians, with reference to others. Th... .... Learn More