Anthropology 275       Reading Report 13
Disease in Prehistory       due 11/1-2007

Answer the following questions based on the paper by Charlotte Roberts and Keith Manchester. 1995. Joint Disease. In: The Archaeology of Disease. 2nd. ed, pp 99-123.

1. Define the following terms: osteophyte, enthesophytes, eburnations, Schmorl’s nodes, subchondral cysts.
2. Describe the sex differences in the distribution of osteoarthritis in an Eskimo group.
3. Describe the differences in the severity and distribution of osteoarthritis between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists.
4. Contrast and compare bone changes caused by septic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, and gouty arthritis.