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Crab louse infestation in pre-Columbian America.
Until now, Pthirus pubis infestation in ancient human populations had only been recorded in the Old World. We found crab lice on South American mummified bodies from the Atacama Desert region. Crab louse eggs were found attached to the pubic hairs of a 2,000-yr-old Chilean mummy. Well-preserved adults were found in sediment and clothing from a Peruvian mummy dated 1,000 yr ago. Paleoparasitolog...
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Received for publication 16 July 1998. Accepted for publication 1 Dec. 1998. Contribution from the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station. Research supported by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison. The cost of publishing this paper was defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. Under postal regulations, this paper therefore must be hereby marked ad...
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In any study of prehistoric intercontinental relations, nothing would seem more fundamental to the reconstruction of culture history than the role of trade. Short of the actual migrations of peoples, which seem to have been relatively infrequent, aboriginal trade must have played the decisive role in the spread of cultural influences. A consideration of the extent, composition and routes of tra...
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Introduction Latin America constitutes a large and geographically diverse region of the New World. Physiographically it is characterized by a high precipitous mountain range, the Sierra Madres in Central America and the Andes in South America with a narrow Pacific coastal plain. Broad welldrained low-lying basins are found on the eastern slopes of these mountains that run into the Atlantic and ...
متن کاملPre-Columbian monkey tools
Stone tools reveal worldwide innovations in human behaviour over the past three million years [1]. However, the only archaeological report of pre-modern non-human animal tool use comes from three Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) sites in Côte d'Ivoire, aged between 4.3 and 1.3 thousand years ago (kya) [2]. This anthropocentrism limits our comparative insight into the emergence and dev...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hispanic American Historical Review
سال: 1970
ISSN: 0018-2168,1527-1900
DOI: 10.1215/00182168-50.3.572