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samples should be studied next. In the days of M0ller- 

 Christenscn he was able to plan his future studies even before 

 the skeletons had been located. Real epidemiological studies 

 allowing comparative analyses of results between different 

 groups and periods first appeared in Denmark with some of 

 the works of Moiler-Christensen on medieval skeletal mate- 

 rial. Recently the paleopathological study of prehistoric skel- 

 etons by the author has followed this tradition. 



The development of paleopathological studies ought not, 

 however, to stop here, but the current database should rather 

 be considered a necessary platform for new investigations 

 using modem methods developed for paleopathology. 



A future study of prehistoric Danish skeletons has been 

 planned mainly by the author, but many scientific specialties 

 are included, and will result in an extensive collaboration 

 with other scholars in this interdisciplinary project. Scholars 

 from many different areas will be involved, mainly within the 

 medical faculty. Other future works will probably also be 

 marked by much more developed teamwork between schol- 

 ars of different specialties, allowing more detailed methods 

 to be presented and evaluated critically. 



Studies based on interdisciplinary cooperation have al- 

 ready been common in archeology for several years. An 

 increasing number of scholars, mainly of natural sciences, 

 are involved in solving the many problems of prehistoric 

 man's culture. In teamwork of this kind archeologists are 

 naturally placed in the center, being those who gather the 

 threads and synthesize the whole. 



Similarly anthropologists usually have an education ex- 

 tending over a rather broad spectrum which may place them 

 naturally in the center of specialists from different areas of 

 medical, dental, paleontological, and chemical disciplines in 

 studies dealing with problems of prehistoric man's biology. 

 Thus, the future of paleopathology may prove to be very 

 promising. 



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