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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 March 2023
      06 April 2023
      ISBN:
      9780511732386
      9781107000773
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511732386
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 180 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Biological Anthropology and Primatology
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    Parasites have been infecting humans throughout our evolution. When complex societies developed, the greater population density provided new opportunities for parasites to spread. In this interdisciplinary volume, the author brings his expertise in medicine, archaeology and history to explore the contribution of parasites in causing flourishing past civilizations to falter and decline. By using cutting edge methods, Mitchell presents the evidence for parasites that infected the peoples of key ancient civilizations across the world in order to understand their impact upon those populations. This new understanding of the archaeological and historical evidence for intestinal worms, ectoparasites, and protozoa shows how different cultures were burdened by contrasting types of diseases depending upon their geographical location, endemic insects, food preferences and cultural beliefs.

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    ‘This volume … challenges us to think about these civilizations without macroparasites - what would they be like day-to-day? How would their histories be different? Thinking in this way, it becomes easy to see the tremendous social and biological impacts that macroparasites had, and continue to have, on humans of the past and present.’

    Sophie K. Joseph Source: The Quarterly Review of Biology

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