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Understanding Historic Health: How 19th Century San Francisco Death Records Supplement Archaeology (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Life and Death in the San Francisco Bay: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Historic Lifeways", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historic records and archaeological data provide important sources of data for testing hypotheses and understanding human health in 19th century populations. Nineteenth century San Francisco coroners kept detailed death records for all people, including infants and children, who passed...