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paleoepidemiology |
the study of disease in ancient communities |
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paleodemography |
the study of vital statistics in ancient communities |
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Aims of paleoepidemiology and paleodemography |
To gain knowledge about past populations based on the characteristics of subsets of populations |
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According to Waldron, there are four extrinsic factors that act on dead populations |
1. Only a portion of those die are buried at the sites being studied 2. Only a portion of those buried evade destruction 3. Only a portion of the undestroyed are discovered 4. Only a portion of the of the discovered are recovered for the osteologist to analyze |
