Natural Resources, School of
Karl Reinhard Publications
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of this Version
2025
Citation
Reinhard, Karl J., & Caacho, Morgana. (2025) Archaeoparasitology of the Colorado Plateau. Bioarchaeology of the Southwest Volume 2. University of Florida Press
Abstract
Archaeoparasitology has been conducted in the Southwest for 57 years. In the first decade of the period, two pictures of parasitism emerged. Analysis of compressed organic sediments from a latrine at Elden Pueblo presented a spectrum of geohelminths not different from medieval Europe. These findings contrast pronouncedly with an analysis of coprolites from all other studies that show consistent pinworm parasitism at other sites in the Southwest. We summarize the paleoepidemiological bases for these contrasting phenomena.
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Comments
RS-5186