15th May 2012, 05:17 PM
Jack Wrote:Does malaria show up in bones?
Think there's an article on it in 'Roman Diasporas', although don't bother looking for it in our favourite university library just now, think the students have been set another essay, both copies have half a dozen 'holds' on :-(
Think the answer's theoretically a conditional yes, if the population you're looking at is big enough, combination of stress-factors and age profile if my memory serves me right - so no chance of tracing it in our local Iron Age funerary population of about 3 manky skellies (my last one was a tiny bit of cranium, two teeth and a couple of finger bones)