Treponemal disease in the middle Archaic to early Woodland periods of the western Tennessee River Valley
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8319947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Ostendorf Smith (0000-0002-7296-0006, Loyola University Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-217 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.20427 |
| PMID | 16552731 |
| OpenAlex | W1997762989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 16 |
The high frequency of late prehistoric New World treponemal disease is attributable to the demographic changes concomitant with the adoption of agriculture. However, these demographic changes in group mobility and site density episodically preceded intensive plant domestication, suggesting possible staggered temporal change in observed treponemal disease case frequency. Thirteen convincing and an additional two probable (N = 581) cases of treponemal disease were identified in an eight-site skeletal sample spanning the Middle (6,000-3,000 BCE) to Late (2,500-ca. 1,000 to 500 BCE) Archaic and Early Woodland (500 BCE-0 CE) periods from the western Tennessee River Valley. Treponemal disease cases are infrequent in both the Middle (3/115, 2.6%) and Late (2 to 4 cases, <or=1%, N = 378) Archaic horizons, and more frequent (8/88, 9.1%) in the Early Woodland horizon. As the subsistence economy across the Archaic-Woodland temporal boundary in the western Tennessee River Valley remained, as elsewhere, based on intensive hunting and collecting, the demographic corollaries of treponemal disease would apparently not be met. However, the traditional horizon marker of the Woodland period is the adoption of pottery, an activity associated with sedentism
Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Domestication · Geography · Holocene · Middle East · Pottery · Prehistory · River valley · Subsistence agriculture · Woodland · Ecology · Forensic and Genetic Research · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Paleopathology and ancient diseases
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2022 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |