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Prehistoric stress in Australian aborigines

by Stephen G. Webb

Aboriginal AustraliansDiseasesBonesWounds and injuriesStress (Physiology)PaleopathologyAntiquitiesHunting and gathering societies

Precontact Aboriginal health, disease, physiology and adaptation; based on data from skeletal collections; stress indicators - cribra orbitalia, dental hypoplasia and Harris lines; secondary stress indicators - non specific and treponemal, infection, osteoarthritis and trauma; nutritional, metabolic and/or physiological disorders; anaemia; behavioural and cultural factors; bone infection; palaeopathology.

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