Recent advances in palaeopathology and the study of past societies in Argentina, southern South America

Paleopathology of the Ychsma: Evidence of respiratory disease during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000-1476) at the Central Coastal site of Pachacamac, Peru

“…However, most of these studies were carried out on European and North American groups, and despite the extensive palaeopathological analyses of South American archaeological populations -especially in the Andean area (e.g. Gerszten et al, 2012;Luna & Suby, 2014;Toyne et al, 2020) -there has been almost no systematic investigation of respiratory disease in these populations. This study seeks to address this imbalance by demonstrating the suitability of P R E P R I N T South American populations for palaeopathological studies of respiratory tract disease, using a Late Intermediate Period (LIP; AD 1000-1476) population from Pachacamac, Peru.…”

Paleopathological Research in Southern Patagonia: An Approach to Understanding Stress and Disease in Hunter-Gatherer Populations

“…For that reason, information regarding stress and disease in these populations and the association of these conditions with different ecological and cultural contexts could offer valuable insights for the interpretation of other hunter-gatherers worldwide. Indeed, a great amount of paleopathological data in skeletal remains of hunter-gatherer populations from Argentina has been produced in the last two decades (see Luna and Suby 2014 for a review).…”