Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Paleopathology

The study of disease in prehistoric times as revealed in bones, mummies, and archaeologic artifacts.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

The study of disease in prehistoric times as revealed in bones, mummies, and archaeologic artifacts.

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12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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specialty; used also as NIM coordinate; check tags HISTORICAL ARTICLE, and ANCIENT HISTORY or MEDIEVAL HISTORY; for prehistory, ANCIENT HISTORY tag is all right; paleopathology is for pre-Columbian, nothing later; consider also MUMMIES /pathol and do not coordinate with PALEOPATHOLOGY

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Paleopathology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010164. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010164
  2. Paleopathology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleopathology
  3. Paleopathology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q676092