Identification of parasitoses in a child burial from Adak Island (Central Aleutian Islands, Alaska)

International audience Bothriocephalid (Diphyllobothrium pacificum) and Ascarid (Ascaris lumbri-coides) eggs have been identified in a sample taken in the abdominal cavity of a child skeleton found in Zeto Point (ADK-011), an archaeological site on Adak Island in the Central Aleutian Islands (Alaska...

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Published in:Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series III - Sciences de la Vie
Main Authors: Bouchet, Françoise, West, Dixie, Lefevre, Christine, Corbett, Debra
Other Authors: Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA), Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas Lawrence (KU), Archéozoologie, histoire des sociétés, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2001
Subjects:
[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory
[SDV.MP.PAR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Parasitology
Adak
Archipel
Îles Aléoutiennes
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Online Access:https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02088273
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02088273/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02088273/file/Bouchet%20et%20al%202001%20Identification%20of%20parasitoses%20in%20a%20child%20burial%20from%20Adak%20Island%20-%20CRAS.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0764-4469(00)01287-7
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Summary:International audience Bothriocephalid (Diphyllobothrium pacificum) and Ascarid (Ascaris lumbri-coides) eggs have been identified in a sample taken in the abdominal cavity of a child skeleton found in Zeto Point (ADK-011), an archaeological site on Adak Island in the Central Aleutian Islands (Alaska). -Identification de parasitoses dans une sépulture d'enfant de l'île d'Adak (archipel des Aléoutiennes, Alaska). Des oeufs de bothriocéphale (Diphyl-lobothrium pacificum) et d'ascaris (Ascaris lumbricoides) ont été identifiés dans un prélèvement issu de la cavité abdominale d'un squelette d'enfant découvert dans le site archéologique de Zeto Point (ADK-011), dans les îles Aléoutiennes (Alaska).

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