Detecting plague: palaeodemographic characterisation of a catastrophic death assemblage

• Autores: R.L. Gowland, A.T. Chamberlain
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 79, Nº 303, 2005, págs. 146-157
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The archaeological definition of a plague should be possible from skeletal populations, because the age profile of a population afflicted by a catastrophe will be different to that of a community exposed to a more normal mortality. The authors show how this can be done using a Bayesian statistical analysis.