Anthropology 275       Reading Report 10
Disease in Prehistory       due 10/16

For each of the pathogens below discuss the following:
1) Describe skeletal lesions typical for each of these pathogens, if any, and/or other sources of information on the distribution of each of these pathogens in human communities in the past.
2) Name and describe theories of possible origin and spread of each pathogen. Which of these theories is supported by existing evidence?

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium leprae, Treponema pallidum, Dyphilobothrium pacificum, Leishmania peruviana, Plasmodium falciparum, HIV