Health Conditions Before Columbus: Paleopathology of Native North Americans
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Debra L. Martin
Alan H. Goodman
The Western Journal of Medicine, vol. 176, no. 1, January 2002, pp. 65-68
Description
Overview of health conditions and the quality of life before contact and colonization suggest that iron deficiency and infectious diseases from common micro-organisms were the largest contributors to morbidity and mortality.