Ron Pinhasi & Simon Mays 
Advances in Human Palaeopathology [PDF ebook] 

Preface (Simon Mays and Ron Pinhasi).
Contributors.
Part 1: Analytical Approaches in Palaeopathology.
1. The Chemical and Microbial Degradation of Bones and Teeth
(Gordon Turner-Walker).
2. How Representative Are Human Skeletal Assemblages for
Population Analysis? (Ron Pinhasi and Chryssi Bourbou).
3. Epidemiological Approaches in Palaeopathology (Ron Pinhasi
and Katy Turner).
4. Macroscopic Analysis and Data Collection in Palaeopathology
(Anne L. Grauer).
5. Radiography and Allied Techniques in the Palaeopathology of
Skeletal Remains (Simon Mays).
6. Computed Tomography Scanning and Three-Dimensional
Visualization of Mummies and Bog Bodies (Niels
Lynnerup).
7. Histological Studies on Ancient Bone (Gordon Turner-Walker
and Simon Mays).
8. Molecular Palaeopathology of Human Infectious Disease
(Helen D. Donoghue).
9. Databases (William White).
Part 2: Diagnosis and Interpretation of Disease in Human
Remains.
10. Differential Diagnosis of Skeletal Lesions in Infectious
Disease (Donald J. Ortner).
11. Metabolic Bone Disease (Simon Mays).
12. Tumours and Tumour-like Processes (Don
Brothwell).
13. Advances in the Palaeopathology of Teeth and Jaws (Alan
Ogden).
14. Trauma (Pia Bennike).
15. Congenital Anomalies (Ethne Barnes).
16. Growth in Archaeological Populations (Ron
Pinhasi).
Index.

Ron Pinhasi received his Ph D from the University of
Cambridge, England in 2003. He spent two years in a Lise Meitner
postdoctoral position at the Natural History museum, Vienna,
examining the health status of early medieval Austrian populations.
He is currently a lecturer in Archaeology, University College Cork,
Ireland. His research focuses on growth and development in past
populations, the origin and spread of leprosy in Eurasia, and the
origins and spread of farming in the Near East. he carries out
fieldwork in Israel and directs prehistoric excavations in Armenia.
Key publications include ‘Morbidity, rickets, and long bone growth
in post-medieval Britain — a cross-population analysis’ (with Shaw,
White and Ogden), Annals of Human biology, 2006; ‘A
cross-population analysis of the growth of long bones and the os
coxae of three early medieval Austrian populations’ (with
Teschler-Nicola, Knaus and Shaw), American Journal of Human
biology, 2005; ‘Tracing the origin and spread of agriculture in
Europe’ (with Fort and Ammerman), PLo S Biology, 2005; and ‘A
regional biological approach to the spread of farming in Europe:
Anatolia, the Levant, south-eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean’
(with Pluciennik), Current Anthropology, 2004. He is a member of
the European Archaeological Association, and the Paleopathology
Association.
Simon Mays received his Ph D from the University of
Southampton, England, in 1987. He is currently Human Skeletal
Biologist for English Heritage and is a Visiting Lecturer at the
University of Southampton. His research encompasses most areas of
human osteoarchaeology. Key publications include: the Archaeology
of Human Bones (Routledge, 1998); Human Osteology in Archaeology
and Forensic Science (Greenwich Medical Media, 2000, co-edited with
M.Cox); ‘Palaeopathological and bimolecular study of tuberculosis
in a mediaeval skeletal collection from England (with Taylor,
Legge, Shaw & Turner-Walker), American Journal of Physical
Anthropology, 2001; Skeletal manifestations of rickets in infants
and young children in an historic population from England’ (with
Brickley and Ives), American Journal of Physical Anthropology,
2006. He is a member of the managing committee of the British
Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology
(BABAO), of the Human Remains Advisory Panel of the UK Governmental
Department of Culture, Media and Sport, and is Secretary of the
Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Christian Burials in
England.