Contributors vii
Introduction xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Demographic Patterns Distinctive of Epidemic Cemeteries in Archaeological Samples 1
Dominique Castex and Sacha Kacki
2 Characterization of the Funeral Groups Associated with Plague Epidemics 13
Stéfan Tzortzis and Michel Signoli
3 Paleogenetics and Past Infections: the Two Faces of the Coin of Human Immune Evolution 21
Laurent Abi-Rached and Didier Raoult
4 A Personal View of How Paleomicrobiology Aids Our Understanding of the Role of Lice in Plague Pandemics 29
Didier Raoult
5 Sources of materials for Paleomicrobiology 39
Gérard Aboudharam
6 Paleomicrobiology Data: Authentification and Interpretation 51
Michel Drancourt
7 Human Coprolites as a Source for Paleomicrobiology 59
Sandra Appelt, Michel Drancourt, and Matthieu Le Bailly
8 Ancient Resistome 75
Abiola Olumuyiwa Olaitain and Jean-Marc Rolain
9 The History of Epidemic Typhus 81
Emmanouil Angelakis, Yassina Bechah, and Didier Raoult
10 Paleopathology of Human Infections: Old Bones, Antique Books, Ancient and Modern Molecules 93
Olivier Dutour
11 Past Bartonelloses 107
Pierre-Edouard Fournier
12 Paleomicrobiology Of Human Tuberculosis 113
Helen Donoghue
13 Paleomicrobiology of Leprosy 131
Mark Spigelman and Mauro Rubini
14 Past Intestinal Parasites 143
Matthieu Le Bailly and Adauto Araújo
15 Paleopathology and Paleomicrobiology of Malaria 155
Andreas Nerlich
16 History of Smallpox and Its Spread in Human Populations 161
Catherine Thèves, Eric Crubézy, and Philippe Biagini
17 Cholera 173
Donatella Lippi, Eduardo Gotuzzo, and Saverio Caini
18 Human Lice in Paleoentomology and Paleomicrobiology 181
Rezak Drali, Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu, and Didier Raoult
Index 191