Anett Gémes, Orsolya Mateovics-László, Alexandra Anders, Pál Raczky, Géza Szabó, Krisztina Somogyi, Tamás Keszi, Katalin Éva Gyenesei, Loránd Olivér Kovács, Antónia Marcsik, László D Szabó, Krisztián Kiss, Kitti Köhler, Zsuzsanna K Zoffmann, Tamás Szeniczey, Tamás Hajdu
Tuberculosis (TB) has long been a major scourge of humankind. Paleopathological and paleomicrobiological studies have revealed the past presence of the disease on a large spatial and temporal scale. The antiquity of the disease has extensively been studied in the Carpathian Basin, given its dynamic population and cultural changes since prehistory. These studies, however, have mainly focused on the populations living during the Common Era. The aim of this paper is to present the published and the recently discovered cases of prehistoric TB, from the Neolithic (6000-4500/4400 BCE) to the Bronze Age (2600/2500-800 BCE) Central Carpathian Basin (Hungary)...
December 2023: Tuberculosis