Absolute Radiocarbon Chronology in the Formative Pottery Production Center of Santa Lucía, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Hemorrhagic fever in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1971.

Urban transmission of Chagas disease in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Chagas disease is a major public health problem in Bolivia. In the city of Cochabamba, 58% of the population lives in peripheral urban districts ("popular zones") where the infection prevalence is extremely high. From 1995 to 1999, we studied the demographics of Chagas infections in children from five to 13 years old (n = 2218) from the South zone (SZ) and North zone (NZ) districts, which diffe...

Multiprimer PCR System Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Cochabamba, Bolivia

Bolivia has one of the highest incidence rates of tuberculosis (TB) in the Americas. An estimated 15,000 new cases are detected per year (1) which corresponds to an incidence rate of 112 cases per 100,000 population; 1,600 deaths are reported to occur annually due to TB (10). These figures as likely to be higher, because similar to many other developing countries, routine TB diagnosis in Bolivi...

An Emerging Logic of Urban Water Management, Cochabamba, Bolivia

This paper exam ines the emergen ce of a new logic of water management in develop ing cities. We argue that water provision is characteri sed by two largely disconnected circu its of water supply. Formally organ ised distribution networks provide a publicly subsid ised service to higher-in come users, while an informal system of water vendors provides a more expensive supply to margin alised co...

An absolute chronology for early Egypt using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modelling.

The Egyptian state was formed prior to the existence of verifiable historical records. Conventional dates for its formation are based on the relative ordering of artefacts. This approach is no longer considered sufficient for cogent historical analysis. Here, we produce an absolute chronology for Early Egypt by combining radiocarbon and archaeological evidence within a Bayesian paradigm. Our da...