Cover

Half-title

Dedication

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of illustrations

List of tobies

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Australian palaeopathology, survey methods, samples and ethnohistoric sources

A brief history of Australian palaeopathological study

The reasons for the survey

The philosophy behind this survey

A study with caution

General methodology

The use of ethnohistorical sources

3 Upper Pleistocene pathology of Sunda and Sahul: some possibilities

Introduction

Australia's human beginnings

Possibilities for assessing the health of Upper Pleistocene migrants to Sahul

Sahul: environment and diseases

4 Pathology in late Pleistocene and early Holocene Australian hominids

Introduction

The Willandra Lakes hominid series

Other late Pleistocene/early Holocene remains

5 Stress

General introduction

Cribra orbitalia (anaemia)

Dental enamel hypoplasia

Harris lines

6 Infectious disease

General introduction

Non-specific infection

Treponemal infection

Tibial bowing

7 Osteoarthritis

General introduction

Osteoarthritis of the knee and elbow

Other forms of arthritis

Osteoarthritis of the temporomandibular joint

Osteoarthritis: a selective stress in Aboriginal cranial morphology

Pathology and culture: selective forces in human morphology

8 Trauma

Introduction

Post-cranial trauma

Cranial trauma

Surgery

9 Neoplastic disease

Introduction

Neoplasms in traditional Aboriginal people

Multiple myeloma

Metastatic carcinoma

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Osteomas

10 Congenital malformations

General introduction

Spina bifida

Meningocoele

Cleft palate

Scaphocephaly/craniosynostosis

Congenital malformations among Australian Aboriginal people

11 Motupore: the palaeopathology of a prehistoric New Guinea island community

Introduction

Motupore Island

Conclusion

12 The old and the new: Australia's changing patterns of health

Introduction

The late Pleistocene

The Holocene

Concluding remarks

References

Index