“…All these investigations contribute to the great challenge of increasing our knowledge of the health of human popula tions that inhabited southern South America in the past: for instance, enamel hypoplasia, porotic hyperostosis, cribra orbitalia and Harris lines (L'Heureux, 2000; Novellino and Gil, 2007;Gómez Otero and Novellino, 2011;Fabra and González, 2012), degenerative joint diseases and entheseal changes Scabuzzo, 2012), evalu ations of oral health, dental size, and hypocalcification (L'Heureux, 2000; Bernal et al, 2007;Luna, 2010;Luna and Aranda, 2010;Menéndez, 2010;Flensborg, 2011;see Bernal and Luna, 2011), analyses of bone mineral density ), paleoparasitological studies Fugassa et al, 2010), research on infectious García Laborde et al, 2010;Flensborg et al, 2013;Arrieta et al, 2014), traumatic (Gordón and Bosio, 2012;Gordón, 2013) and neoplastic diseases (Luna et al, 2008). Some paleoepidemiological and paleodemographical stud ies were also carried out (García Guraieb, 2006;Luna, 2006Luna, , 2012Berón et al, 2012;Flensborg et al, 2013).…”