Professor Rebecca Gowland rebecca.gowland@durham.ac.uk
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Detecting plague: palaeodemographic characterisation of a catastrophic death assemblage
Gowland, R.; Chamberlain, A.T.
Authors
A.T. Chamberlain
Abstract
The archaeological definition of a plague should be possible from skeletal populations, because the age profile of a population afflicted by a catastrophe will be different to that of a community exposed to a more normal mortality. The authors show how this can be done using a Bayesian statistical analysis.
Citation
Gowland, R., & Chamberlain, A. (2005). Detecting plague: palaeodemographic characterisation of a catastrophic death assemblage. Antiquity, 79(303), 146-157. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00113766
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Mar 1, 2005 |
Deposit Date | Dec 1, 2008 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 17, 2011 |
Journal | Antiquity |
Print ISSN | 0003-598X |
Electronic ISSN | 1745-1744 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 79 |
Issue | 303 |
Pages | 146-157 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00113766 |
Keywords | Black Death, Bayesian Statistics, Skeletal ageing. |
Publisher URL | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9508155&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0003598X00113766 |
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