[Sca-cooks] paleoepidemiology of celiac disease..

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

Found the abstract for this fascinating article in an Infotrac search:

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, April 2002 v117 i4 p91(1)
The paleoepidemiology of celiac disease: osteological evidence from
prehistoric Europe.  L. Johnson-Kelly.

Important point made in the abstract: "the skeletal pathologies associated
with celiac disease achieve peak frequency not in the Neolithic, when
grain-based agriculture was first introduced, but much later, during the
Middle Ages, when access to nongrain foodstuffs was severely reduced."

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
"The tumult and the shouting dies/The captains and the kings depart
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice/An humble and a contrite heart."
	-- Rudyard Kipling, Recessional