Sharon N. DeWitte

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Sharon N. DeWitte

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According to Wikipedia, Sharon Nell DeWitte is an American bioarchaeologist. She is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her research interests include the Black Death.

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A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death (2011) (601)
Yersinia pestis and the plague of Justinian 541-543 AD: a genomic analysis. (2014) (348)
The Osteological Paradox 20 Years Later: Past Perspectives, Future Directions (2015) (205)
Targeted enrichment of ancient pathogens yielding the pPCP1 plasmid of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death (2011) (200)
Selectivity of Black Death mortality with respect to preexisting health (2008) (194)
Mortality Risk and Survival in the Aftermath of the Medieval Black Death (2014) (122)
Stature and frailty during the Black Death: the effect of stature on risks of epidemic mortality in London, A.D. 1348-1350. (2012) (111)
Sex differentials in frailty in medieval England. (2010) (108)
Oral health and frailty in the medieval English cemetery of St Mary Graces. (2009) (80)
Age Patterns of Mortality During the Black Death in London, A.D. 1349-1350. (2010) (79)
Differential survival among individuals with active and healed periosteal new bone formation. (2014) (76)
The effect of sex on risk of mortality during the Black Death in London, A.D. 1349-1350. (2009) (67)
A new approach to the study of Romanization in Britain: a regional perspective of cultural change in late iron age and roman dorset using the siler and gompertz-makeham models of mortality. (2011) (66)
Health in post-Black Death London (1350-1538): age patterns of periosteal new bone formation in a post-epidemic population. (2014) (63)
Frailty and famine: Patterns of mortality and physiological stress among victims of famine in medieval London. (2016) (63)
Urban-rural differences in Roman Dorset, England: A bioarchaeological perspective on Roman settlements. (2015) (59)
Sex differences in periodontal disease in catastrophic and attritional assemblages from medieval London. (2012) (59)
What Do We Know about the Agricultural Demographic Transition? (2009) (54)
Between Famine and Death: England on the Eve of the Black Death—Evidence from Paleoepidemiology and Manorial Accounts (2013) (53)
Setting the stage for medieval plague: Pre-black death trends in survival and mortality. (2015) (53)
Ancient pathogen DNA in archaeological samples detected with a Microbial Detection Array (2014) (50)
Wealth, health and frailty in industrial-era London (2016) (49)
The association between periodontal disease and periosteal lesions in the St. Mary Graces cemetery, London, England A.D. 1350-1538. (2011) (49)
Stress, sex, and plague: Patterns of developmental stress and survival in pre‐ and post‐Black Death London (2018) (40)
Yersinia pestis: New Evidence for an Old Infection (2012) (38)
Status and health in Roman Dorset: the effect of status on risk of mortality in post-conquest populations. (2011) (31)
Medieval monastic mortality: hazard analysis of mortality differences between monastic and nonmonastic cemeteries in England. (2013) (31)
Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death (2022) (31)
Urban and rural mortality and survival in Medieval England (2017) (29)
The Anthropology of Plague: Insights from Bioarcheological Analyses of Epidemic Cemeteries (2020) (28)
Archaeological Evidence of Epidemics Can Inform Future Epidemics (2016) (24)
Disease epidemics: lessons for resilience in an increasingly connected world. (2016) (24)
Do leprosy and tuberculosis generate a systemic inflammatory shift? Setting the ground for a new dialogue between experimental immunology and bioarchaeology. (2017) (20)
Bioarchaeology and the Ethics of Research Using Human Skeletal Remains (2015) (19)
Using spatial analysis to estimate depopulation for Native American populations in northeastern North America, AD 1616–1645 (2012) (18)
Demographic anthropology. (2018) (16)
Patterns of frailty in non-adults from medieval London. (2018) (15)
Sex differentials in caries frequencies in Medieval London. (2016) (15)
Genetic resiliency and the Black Death: No apparent loss of mitogenomic diversity due to the Black Death in medieval London and Denmark. (2019) (14)
A Novel Investigation into Migrant and Local Health-Statuses in the Past: A Case Study from Roman Britain (2018) (13)
Medieval menarche: Changes in pubertal timing before and after the Black Death (2020) (13)
Multiple Injury and Health in Past Societies: An Analysis of Concepts and Approaches, and Insights from a Multi‐Period Study (2017) (12)
Assessment of nutritional stress in famine burials using stable isotope analysis. (2020) (11)
Trends in mortality and biological stress in a medieval polish urban population. (2017) (11)
A new method for investigating the relationship between diet and mortality: hazard analysis using dietary isotopes (2019) (10)
Demography Part 1: Mortality and Migration (2012) (9)
Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past. (2021) (9)
Sex differences in adult famine mortality in medieval London. (2019) (8)
Black Death Bodies (2017) (8)
Demographic and Evolutionary Consequences of Pandemic Diseases (2021) (8)
Household ecology and out-migration among ethnic Karen along the Thai-Myanmar border (2014) (8)
Femur Length and Famine Mortality in Medieval London (2017) (7)
Calculus and survivorship in medieval London: The association between dental disease and a demographic measure of general health. (2019) (7)
Erratum: A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death (2011) (6)
Urban and rural survivorship in Pre- and Post-Black Death Denmark (2021) (6)
Bioarchaeological applications of intersectionality (2020) (6)
COVID-19 and the Black Death: Nutrition, frailty, inequity, and mortality (2020) (5)
Modeling the Second Epidemiologic Transition in London (2014) (5)
Oral Health and Frailty in the Medieval English Cemetery of St (2009) (5)
Dietary Variation in an Urbanizing City: A Temporal Analysis of Diet in Late Medieval London Using Stable Isotope Analysis (2020) (4)
The Paleodemography of the Black Death 1347-1351 (2006) (4)
Climate change, human health, and resilience in the Holocene (2023) (2)
Famine and Frailty: Crisis Mortality and Stature in Medieval London (2015) (2)
Frailty Patterns from Catastrophic and Attritional Assemblages in Medieval Europe (2016) (2)
Ancient pathogens provide a window into health and well-being (2023) (2)
Isotopes and Famine: An Isotopic Comparison of Famine and Attritional Burials in a Late Medieval London Cemetery (2018) (2)
Sexual stature difference fluctuations in pre‐ and post‐Black Death London as an indicator of living standards (2022) (2)
A Brief History and 21st Century Challenges (2019) (2)
Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Skeleton (2nd edition). By Clark Spencer Larsen. 654 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2015. $149.99 (cloth), $64.99 (paper), $52.00 (e-book). (2016) (2)
Stress, sex, and plague: patterns of developmental stress and survival in pre- and post-Black Death London (2019) (1)
Plagues past and present: the modern relevance of archaeological studies of epidemics in the past (2018) (1)
Do people with multiple injuries also have poor health (2016) (1)
Periodontal Disease and Periosteal Lesions in a Prehistoric Population from Kentucky: Searching for Evidence of Systemic Inflammation (2017) (1)
Medieval famine and health: skeletal markers of childhood physiological stress in survivors of the Great Famine, 1315-1322 (2012) (1)
Urbanization and Mortality Risk in Late Medieval London (2016) (1)
The effect of multiple stress events on risk of mortality during the medieval Black Death (2016) (1)
Introduction to the Bioarchaeology of Urbanization (2020) (1)
Sex-Specific Patterns of Survival in the Context of Urbanization and Environmental Change in Medieval and Post-medieval London, England (2019) (1)
Developmental stress and disease susceptibility: the association between skeletal indicators of leprosy and other physiological stressors (2015) (1)
Leveraging Insight from Centuries of Outbreak Preparedness to Improve Modern Planning Efforts (2020) (1)
Twenty-first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward. (2022) (1)
Reconstructing the impact of infectious diseases on the immune system of human populations: periodontal disease as marker to detect immunological shifts? (2015) (1)
Pubertal Timing as a Measure of Health and Well-Being and a Bridge Between Past and Present (2022) (1)
Disease and Discrimination: Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America. DALE H. HUTCHINSON. 2016. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. xviii + 249 pp. $84.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8130-6269-3. (2017) (1)
Sex and Famine: Mortality Differentials in Medieval London (2016) (1)
Effect of mycobacterial species on immune cells and its potential impact on inflammatory responses in periosteal lesions (2017) (1)
Urbanization’s Impact: Health and Survivorship Patterns in Medieval Poland (2017) (1)
Childhood and Famine in Medieval London (2017) (1)
Mitochondrial population dynamics in Black Death London (2018) (1)
Sex differences in pre- vs. post-Black Death trends in developmental stress markers (2017) (1)
Misconceptions About the Bioarchaeology of Plague (2018) (1)
Palaeoepidemiology: The Measure of Disease in the Human Past by Tony Waldron (2011) (0)
Emergence, continuity, and evolution of Yersinia pestis throughout medieval and early modern Denmark (2023) (0)
TMG 1 (2014): Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death, ed. Monica Green (2014) (0)
Parsing the Paradox (2019) (0)
Probing the Immunomodulatory Potential of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (2018) (0)
Reply to Barton et al: signatures of natural selection during the Black Death (2023) (0)
Frailty, Survivorship, and Stress in Medieval Poland: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Populations (2020) (0)
The Osteological Paradox 20 Years Later: Past Perspectives, Future Directions (2015) (0)
Examining resilience in bioarcheology (2019) (0)
Sex, age and caries: Sex differences of caries frequency in Medieval London c. 1120-1250 (2014) (0)
POSSIBLE SCURVY IN PRISONERS FROM OLD QUEBEC CANADA : RE-EVALUATION OF EVIDENCE IN ADULT SKELETAL REMAINS (2016) (0)
Book review: Demography in Archaeology (2008) (0)
Temporal Survival Analysis of Medieval St. Mary Spital Cemetery, London (c. 1120-1400 CE) (2015) (0)
Urban environments (2020) (0)
Medieval menarche: changes in pubertal timing in the aftermath of the Black Death (2020) (0)

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