George J. Armelagos

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PhD Anthropology University of Colorado Boulder
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According to Wikipedia, George J. Armelagos was an American anthropologist, and Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Armelagos significantly impacted the field of physical anthropology and biological anthropology. His work has provided invaluable contributions to the theoretical and methodological understanding human disease, diet and human variation within an evolutionary context. Relevant topics include epidemiology, paleopathology, paleodemography, bioarchaeology, evolutionary medicine, and the social interpretations of race, among others.

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Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture (1984) (774)
Enamel hypoplasias as indicators of stress in three prehistoric populations from Illinois. (1980) (371)
EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES: The Third Epidemiologic Transition (1998) (351)
Biocultural perspectives on stress in prehistoric, historical, and contemporary population research (1988) (292)
Factors affecting the distribution of enamel hypoplasias within the human permanent dentition. (1985) (256)
Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating (1980) (252)
Part Two: The role of constitutional factors, diet, and infectious disease in the etiology of porotic hyperostosis and periosteal reactions in prehistoric infants and children. (1978) (215)
Evolutionary, historical and political economic perspectives on health and disease. (2005) (192)
Nutritional Inference from Paleopathology (1982) (187)
The origins of agriculture: Population growth during a period of declining health (1991) (186)
Infant and childhood morbidity and mortality risks in archaeological populations. (1989) (180)
The Origin and Antiquity of Syphilis: Paleopathological Diagnosis and Interpretation [and Comments and Reply] (1988) (180)
On the Origin of the Treponematoses: A Phylogenetic Approach (2008) (173)
A Century of Skeletal Biology and Paleopathology: Contrasts, Contradictions, and Conflicts (2003) (173)
Insights into immigration and social class at Machu Picchu, Peru based on oxygen, strontium, and lead isotopic analysis (2009) (172)
Enamel hypoplasia and early mortality: Bioarcheological support for the Barker hypothesis (2009) (167)
The Changing Disease-Scape in the Third Epidemiological Transition (2010) (166)
Social Responses During Severe Food Shortages and Famine [and Comments and Reply] (1980) (156)
The role of diet, disease, and physiology in the origin of porotic hyperostosis. (1977) (154)
Tetracycline-labeled human bone from ancient Sudanese Nubia (A.D. 350). (1980) (150)
The origin and antiquity of syphilis revisited: an appraisal of Old World pre-Columbian evidence for treponemal infection. (2011) (148)
Stature and robusticity during the agricultural transition: evidence from the bioarchaeological record. (2011) (147)
The chronological distribution of enamel hypoplasias from prehistoric Dickson Mounds populations. (1984) (147)
Bone chemistry and past behavior: an overview (1985) (139)
Apportionment of racial diversity: A review (2001) (139)
Disease in ancient Nubia. (1969) (137)
Childhood Stress and Decreased Longevity in a Prehistoric Population (1988) (131)
Histological enamel indicator of childhood stress in prehistoric skeletal samples. (1978) (125)
"Farewell" To Paleodemography?" Rumors of Its Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (1983) (113)
Factors Influencing the Etiology of Cribra Orbitalia in Prehistoric Nubia (1974) (111)
Deciduous enamel defects in prehistoric Americans from Dickson Mounds: prenatal and postnatal stress. (1985) (110)
Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum infections in mummies using the rapid manual ParaSight-F test. (1994) (103)
Bone growth and development in prehistoric populations from Sudanese Nubia (1972) (95)
Morphometrics of compact bone: an example from Sudanese Nubia. (1979) (93)
Anthropological Implications of Sickle Cell Gene Distribution in West Africa (2008) (92)
Dentition of a mesolithic population from Wadi Halfa, Sudan. (1967) (90)
Brief communication: Mass spectroscopic characterization of tetracycline in the skeletal remains of an ancient population from Sudanese Nubia 350-550 CE. (2010) (81)
The chronological distribution of enamel hypoplasia in human permanent incisor and canine teeth. (1985) (80)
Forensic Misclassification of Ancient Nubian Crania: Implications for Assumptions about Human Variation (2005) (78)
Femoral cortical involution in three Nubian archaeological populations. (1969) (75)
Treponema pallidum Infection in the Wild Baboons of East Africa: Distribution and Genetic Characterization of the Strains Responsible (2012) (74)
Poor growth prior to early childhood: decreased health and life-span in the adult. (1986) (74)
Patterns of age-related cortical bone loss (osteoporosis) within the femoral diaphysis. (1976) (72)
Brain Evolution, the Determinates of Food Choice, and the Omnivore's Dilemma (2014) (69)
Palaeoepidemiology of Schistosoma infection in mummies. (1992) (67)
Roentgenographic and direct measurement of femoral cortical involution in a prehistoric Mississippian population. (1969) (65)
Genomics at the origins of agriculture, part one (2005) (65)
Biocultural synthesis in medical anthropology. (1992) (64)
Skeletal remodeling and mineralization as indicators of health: an example from prehistoric Sudanese Nubia (1985) (63)
The Origins of Biocultural Dimensions in Bioarchaeology (2011) (62)
Variation in dietary histories among the immigrants of Machu Picchu: carbon and nitrogen isotope evidence (2010) (62)
Galileo Wept: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Race in Forensic Anthropology (2000) (60)
Role of Constitutional Factors, Diet and Infectious Disease in the Etiology of Porotic Hyperstosis and Periosteal Reactions In Prehistoric Infants and Children (1978) (58)
The sequence of the acidic repeat protein (arp) gene differentiates venereal from nonvenereal Treponema pallidum subspecies, and the gene has evolved under strong positive selection in the subspecies that causes syphilis. (2008) (57)
Osteopenia and stable isotope ratios in bone collagen of Nubian female mummies (1997) (54)
Health Changes at Dickson Mounds, Illinois (950-1300 A.D). In: Paleopathology At the Origins of Agriculture (1984) (51)
Evolutionary Response to Human Infectious Diseases (1970) (49)
Disease in Populations in Transition: Anthropological and Epidemiological Perspectives (1990) (47)
On generating birth rates from skeletal populations. (1988) (46)
Genomics, the origins of agriculture, and our changing microbe‐scape: Time to revisit some old tales and tell some new ones (2013) (44)
Paleoepidemiology of Infectious Disease in the Dickson Mounds Population (1978) (43)
Racial History and bio-cultural adaptation of Nubian archaeological populations (1973) (42)
Bioarchaeology as Anthropology (2004) (41)
Continuity and Change in Cranial Morphology of Three Nubian Archaeological Populations (1977) (41)
Osteopenia and stable isotope ratios in bone collagen of Nubian female mummies. (1997) (41)
Analysis of nutritional disease in prehistory: The search for scurvy in antiquity and today. (2014) (41)
Life and death in ancient populations: Bones of contention in paleodemography (1986) (38)
Indications of Stress from Bone and Teeth. In: Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture (1984) (38)
Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture: Editor's Summation (1984) (38)
Sexual dimorphism and human evolution: An overview (1980) (36)
Irrigation and infection: the immunoepidemiology of schistosomiasis in ancient Nubia. (2011) (36)
Effects of Socioeconomic Change in Prehistoric Africa: Sudancese Nubia As a Case Study. In: Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture (1984) (34)
Diet, residential origin, and pathology at Machu Picchu, Peru. (2012) (34)
Hyperostosis frontalis interna: a Nubian case. (1988) (34)
The Viral Superhighway (1998) (34)
Evolutionary Thought in Paleopathology and the Rise of the Biocultural Approach (2012) (33)
On a Demographer's View of Prehistoric Demography (1975) (33)
Obstetric dimensions of the true pelvis in a medieval population from Sudanese Nubia. (1992) (33)
Disease in Human Evolution: The Reemergence of Infectious Disease in the Third Epidemiological Transition (2014) (32)
The evolution of disease: anthropological perspectives on epidemiologic transitions (2014) (31)
Adapt or Die: Three Case Studies in Which the Failure to Adopt Advances from Other Fields has Compromised Paleopathology (2016) (30)
Theoretical Foundations and Development of Skeletal Biology (1982) (29)
6 Rates of Femoral Cortical Bone Loss in Two Nubian Populations: Utilizing Normalized and Non‐normalized Data (1969) (28)
The evolution of disease: anthropological perspectives on epidemiologic transitions. (2014) (28)
Skeletal Pathologies As Indicators of Quality and Quantity of Diet. Inc: the Analysis of Prehistoric Diet (1984) (27)
Chapter 3. Bioarchaeology as Anthropology (2008) (27)
Settlement and mortality of the Christian site (1050 A.D.–1300 A.D.) of Meinarti (Sudan) (1974) (26)
Genomics at the origins of agriculture, part two (25)
Trabecular involution in femoral heads of a prehistoric (X-group) population from Sudanese Nubia. (1972) (24)
The evolution of human disease and the rise of allergy: Epidemiological transitions (1999) (21)
Studies In Disruption: Demography And Health In The Prehistoric American Southwest (1994) (19)
An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections (2013) (19)
Tetracycline consumption in prehistory (2001) (18)
The Science Behind Pre‐Columbian Evidence of Syphilis in Europe: Research by Documentary (2012) (18)
Population, Disease, and Evolution (1975) (17)
THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA The Evolution of the Brain and the Determinants of Food Choice (2010) (17)
The paleolithic disease-scape, the hygiene hypothesis, and the second epidemiological transition (2009) (16)
Introduction: sex, gender and health status in prehistoric and contemporary populations (2005) (16)
The Slavery Hypertension Hypothesis—Natural Selection and Scientific Investigation: A Commentary (2005) (16)
Human evolution and the evolution of disease. (1991) (15)
An example of In Vivo tetracycline labelling: Reply to piepenbrink (1988) (15)
Health, economic change, and regional political-economic relations: examples from prehistory (1992) (14)
Humans in a World of Microbes: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease (2011) (13)
On the Use of Microstructural Bone for Age Determination (1981) (12)
Racism and physical anthropology: Brues's review of Barkan's The retreat of scientific racism. (1994) (12)
Bibliography Of Human Paleopathology (1971) (12)
An Ecological Interpretation of Variation in Mortality Within Three Prehistoric American Indian Populations From Dickson Mounds (1980) (11)
Take Two Beers and Call Me in 1,600 Years: Ancient Nubians and Egyptians had a way with antibiotics. (2000) (11)
Food, Identity, and African-American Women With Type 2 Diabetes: An Anthropological Perspective (2003) (10)
A Maya Tooth Offering from Yakalche, British Honduras (1968) (9)
Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Third Epidemiological Transition (1998) (9)
Powers of Observation: Alternative Views in Archeology (1990) (9)
Human Evolution, Diet and Nutrition: Where the Body Meets the Buffet (2008) (9)
The Hygiene Hypothesis and the Second Epidemiologic Transition (2014) (9)
Cortical involution in prehistoric Mississippian femora. (1970) (9)
Aikens’ Fremont Hypothesis and Use of Skeletal Material in Archaeological Interpretation (1968) (9)
Race, reason, and rationale (2005) (8)
Nutritional Inferences from Paleopathology. In: Advances in Archeological Method and Theory - Volume V (1982) (8)
The Backbone of History: The Body as Evidence; The Body of Evidence (2002) (7)
Comment on "Hypoplastic area method for analyzing enamel hypoplasia" B.E.Ensor and J.D. Irish, American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1995) 98:507-517. (1997) (7)
On the Trail of the Twisted Treponeme: Searching for the Origins of Syphilis (2005) (7)
To the Science, to the Living, to the Dead: Ethics and Bioarchaeology (2006) (7)
The Origin and Antiquity of Syphilis: Paleopathological Diagnosis and Interpretation (2022) (6)
Degenerative Joint Disease of the Long Bones in Dickson Mounds (1979) (6)
Primates, Pathogens, and Evolution: A Context for Understanding Emerging Disease (2013) (6)
Emerging disease in the third epidemiological transition (2004) (6)
Eclipse of the gene and the return of divination. Commentaries. Author's reply (2005) (6)
6. A Fossilized Mandible from Near Wadi Halfa, Sudan (1964) (6)
Disease, Darwin, and medicine in the third epidemiological transition (1997) (5)
PROBLEMS IN RACIAL GEOGRAPHY (1971) (5)
Histories of Scholars, Ideas, and Disciplines of Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (2011) (5)
Reading the Bones (2013) (5)
Excavation of the Hazetine Heights Site (1963) (5)
Introduction to this issue (1991) (4)
Correspondence: A Possible (But not Probable?) Case of Treponemal Disease (2013) (4)
Chronology of Enamal Hypoplastic Growth Disruptions in Prehistoric, Historic, and Modern Populations (1980) (3)
Revisiting the Slavery Hypertension Hypothesis (2006) (3)
Physical Anthropology and Man-Made Lakes (1968) (3)
Determining Nutritional and Infectious Disease Stress in Prehistoric Skeletal Populations (Abstract of Paper) (1980) (3)
Response to Cole and Waldron's "letter to the editor: Syphilis revisited". (2012) (3)
Creatures of the flame: Light and heat in human evolution (2010) (3)
Health and Disease: The Adults (2017) (2)
Morphometrics and Indicators of Dietary Stress in Prehistoric Nubia (1982) (2)
Life and Death on the Nile: A Bioethnography of Three Ancient Nubian Communities (2017) (2)
Decreased Longevity in a Prehistoric Population (1988) (2)
Pale pathology of Three Archeological Populations from Sudanese Nubia (2016) (2)
Mad cows and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies: The human face of the globalization of disease (1998) (2)
Approaches for Analysis of Chemical Tracers of the Human Diet System (1984) (2)
Postmortem change in human and animal remains: A systematic approach. Marc. S. Micozzi. Springfield, Illinois: CC Thomas Publishers. 1991, xii + 124 pp. $27.95 (cloth) (1992) (2)
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Urbanization, and Globalization in the Time of Global Warming (2009) (2)
Human origins: The fossil record, 2nd edition. By C.S. Larsen, R.M. Matter, and D.L. Gebo. xii + 207pp. Prospect Heights, N.Y.: Waveland Press. 1991. $14.95 (paper) (1992) (2)
Recognizing Women in the Archeological Record (2008) (1)
Ancient DNA analysis of an infant from Sudanese Nubia (ca 500-1400 C.E.) (2014) (1)
CURRENT DIRECTION IN PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: COMMENT (1971) (1)
The Persistence of Nutritional Stress in Northeastern African (Sudanese Nubian) Populations (2019) (1)
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Readings on Race. Stanley M. Garn (1969) (1)
Evaluation of the Biocultural Consequences of the Mississippian Transformation (1990) (1)
The Biological Impact of Cultural Transformations and Economic Differences in Ancient Nubia (2013) (1)
On the Interpretation of the Kadero (Sudan) Neolithic Population (1978) (1)
Detecting Positions in Networks: A Formal Analysis (1988) (1)
Evolutionists and creationists at the dinner table (2004) (1)
Building an Understanding of Human Adaptability (1978) (1)
Chapter 1, The Abbreviation Listing of Journals in Bibliography (1971) (0)
Paleonutrition. Mark O. Sutton , Kristin D. Sobolik , Jill K. Gardner (2011) (0)
Biological Anthropology Section: Biocultural Anthropology (2004) (0)
Prehistoric variability of metal and /sup 13/C//sup 12/C content in bone: dietary and gender factors (1983) (0)
Bone: Fundamentals of the physiology of skeletal tissue. Third Edition. Revised and Enlarged. By Franklin C. McLean and Marshall R. Urist. xxi + 314 pp., ill. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1968. $8.50 (1969) (0)
Modifying Our Microbial Environment (2016) (0)
Overall health and the pathophysiology of tertiary syphilis (2012) (0)
Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century.Edited byMichael A. Littleand, Kenneth A. R. Kennedy.Lexington Books. Lanham (Maryland): Rowman & Littlefield. $80.00. xii + 259 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978‐0‐7391‐3511‐2 (hc); 978‐0‐7391‐3513‐6 (eb). 2010. (2010) (0)
Sheryl Green Stanton Green (2003) (0)
Emerging disease in the third epidemiological transition 5 Part I Historical aspects (2003) (0)
Chapter 6, Bibliography of Human Paleopathology M-N (1971) (0)
Paleophysiological Aspects of Bone Remodeling in the Meroitic (2017) (0)
The hygiene hypothesis and the second epidemiologic transition: using biocultural, epidemiological, and evolutionary theory to inform practice in clinical medicine and public health (2016) (0)
Skulls, Races, and Evolution (2017) (0)
Growth and Development (2017) (0)
Chapter 8, Bibliography of Human Paleopathology S-T (1971) (0)
Sample Preparation for Dietary Interpretation from Stable Carbon Isotopes To Archaeological Bone (1984) (0)
Chapter 5, Bibliography of Human Paleopathology K-L (1971) (0)
Paleontology (2010) (0)
Dietary associations with non-specific disease in ancient Nubia Evidence from stable isotopes (1993) (0)
Chapter 9, Bibliography of Human Paleopathology U-Z (1971) (0)
Bibliography of Human Paleopathology (Introduction) (1971) (0)
Chapter 2, Bibliography of Human Paleopathology A-B (1971) (0)
Tetracycline Labeling in Early Christian Burials from Kulubnarti, Nubia: Measure of Class Differences (2013) (0)
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Bones, Bodies, and Disease: Evidence of Disease and Abnormality in Early Man. Calvin Wells (1966) (0)
Erratum (1983) (0)
Chapter 3, Bibliography of Human Paleopathology C-D (1971) (0)
The demography of prehistoric populations. (1977) (0)
Homogeneity of Tetracycline Labeling Across Classes in Early Christian Burials from Kulubnarti, Nubia (2015) (0)
Bibliography of Human Paleopathology (Full Text) (1971) (0)
The Second Epidemiologic Transition, Adaptation, and the Evolutionary Paradigm (2014) (0)
Correction: Treponema pallidum Infection in the Wild Baboons of East Africa: Distribution and Genetic Characterization of the Strains Responsible (2014) (0)
Anthropology and the Genographic Project (2012) (0)
Paleopathology: Diseases and injuries of prehistoric man. By Paul A. Janssens. 170 pp. and 75 ill. Humanities Press, New York. 1970. $8.50 (1971) (0)
Chapter 4, Bibliography of Human Paleopathology E-H (1971) (0)
Health and Disease: The Children (2017) (0)
The Wadi Haifa Population and Rightmire's Interpretation of Later Pleistocene Man in Africa (1976) (0)
Captain of death: The story of tuberculosis (1999) (0)
Life and Death on the Nile (2017) (0)
Chapter 7, Bibliography of Human Paleopathology O-R (1971) (0)
PaleontologyPalaeopathology.Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. ByTonyWaldron. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $80.00 (hardcover); $28.99 (paper). xvii 279 p.; ill.; index. 9780521861373 (hc); 9780521678551 (pb). 2009. (2010) (0)

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