Disease And Death At Dr. Dickson's Mounds Summary

For my second article, of assignment two, I chose “Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson’s Mounds” by Alan H. Goodman and George J. Armelagos, and the article from the Bradford Foundation I am comparing it to is “The Cochimi Culture on the Baja California Peninsula of Mexico.”
I found it fascinating that both articles talked of disease and death but both came from completely opposite reasons. What I mean by that is that the artifacts show that the people of Dickson Mounds came from being farmers and having homesteads that are more permanent. Midwestern winters are brutally cold with substantial amounts of snowfall. This alone would have been bad but add into it that they are malnourished and living in close quarters with no antibiotics like those