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Compromised health: Examining growth and health in a late antique Roman infant and child cemetery.

Sierra W MalisJordan A WilsonMolly Kathleen ZuckermanAnna J OsterholtzJulianne PaigeShane MillerLujana ParamanDavid Soren
Published in: American journal of biological anthropology (2024)
These differences in growth and stress experience are likely related to the different biosocial and ecological environments present in these two regions. For the community at PG, internal and external violent conflicts, as well as social, political, and economic turmoil, and subsistence shortages, endemic and epidemic infectious disease, nutritional deficiencies, and inherited or acquired anemia may have synergized to create chronically and/or episodically deleterious conditions for its juveniles.
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