Disease, climate and the peopling of the Americas
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2012
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Drake, Allison
Oxenham, Marc
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Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Archaeological discussions surrounding the reasons for pre-Columbian Native American disease susceptibility have encompassed a wide range of issues particularly that the cold of Beringia acted as a barrier to the entry of infectious disease during initial
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Keywords: archaeology; epidemiology; infectious disease; pathogen; pathology; population density; population size; survival; temperature effect; Animalia Beringia; circumpolar; cold-screen; disease loads; New World; paleopathology
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Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology
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