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A Paleodemographic Study of Mortality in 1st Century BC/AD Petra, Jordan (2017)
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The population of Petra, Jordan, from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD appears to have rarely suffered from infectious diseases as suggested by the paleopathology profile of those buried on the site’s North Ridge. However, many infectious diseases in the past killed their hosts before skeletal lesions could form so to be documented. Cemetery-level age-at-death profiles provide an important supplementary record of disease-related mortality risks faced by archaeological populations by...