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TUBERCULOSIS 



161 Jane E. Buikstra and Sloan Williams: 



Tuberculosis in the Americas: Current perspectives 



173 Mary Lucas Powell: Endemic treponematosis and 

 tuberculosis in the prehistoric southeastern United 

 States: Biological costs of chronic endemic disease 



181 Eugen Strouhal: Vertebral tuberculosis in ancient 

 Egypt and Nubia 



TUMORS 



251 JuDYTA Gladykowska-Rzeczycka: Tumors in 

 antiquity in East and Middle Europe 



257 Enrique Gerszten and Marvin J. Allison; 

 Human soft tissue tumors in paleopathology 



261 James M. Tenney: Identification and study of 

 carcinoma in paleopathoiogical material: Present 

 status and future directions 



LEPROSY 



197 Joseph Zias: Leprosy and tuberculosis in the 

 Byzantine monasteries of the Judean Desert 



200 Debra a. Chase: Evidence of disease in ancient 

 Near Eastern texts: Leprosy in the Epilogue to the 

 Code of Hammurapi? 



205 JoHS G. Andersen: The medieval diagnosis of 

 leprosy 



DENTAL DISEASE 



269 Albert A. Dahlberg: Interpretations of general 

 problems in ameiogenesis 



273 Gabor Kocsis and Antonia Marcsik: Two 



developmental anomalies of the teeth and resulting 

 secondary pathosis 



280 Alan H. Goodman: Stress, adaptation, and enamel 

 developmental defects 



ARTHRITIS 



21 1 James C.C. Leisen, Howard Duncan, and J.M. 

 Riddle: Rheumatoid erosive arthropathy as seen in 

 macerated (dry) bone specimens 



216 Jan Dequeker: Paleopathology of rheumatism in 

 paintings 



TRAUMA 



225 Charlotte Roberts: Trauma and treatment in the 

 British Isles in the Historic Period: A design for 

 multidisciplinary research 



241 Robert D. Jurmain: Paleoepidemiology of trauma 

 in a prehistoric central California population 



MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS 



291 James Blackman, Marvin J. Allison, Arthur 

 C. Aufderheide, Norman Oldroyd, and R. Ted 

 Steinbock: Secondary hyperparathyroidism in an 

 Andean mummy 



297 Wolfgang M. Pahl and W. Undeutsch: 



Noma — cancer aquaticus: First indication of the skin 

 involving disease in ancient Egypt? 



305 Arthur C. Aufderheide and Donald J. Ortner: 

 Synthesis and conclusions 



309 Participants 



