Identification of parasitoses in a child burial from Adak Island (Central Aleutian Islands, Alaska).
Bothriocephalid (Diphyllobothrium pacificum) and Ascarid (Ascaris lumbricoides) eggs have been identified in a sample taken in the abdominal cavity of a child skeleton found in Zeto Point (ADK-011), an archaeological site on Adak Island in the Central Aleutian Islands (Alaska).
Laboratoire de paléoparasitologie, ESA 8045 (CNRS), université de Reims, 51, rue Cognacq-Jay, 51096 Reims, France. francoise.bouchet@univ-reims.fr
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D000005:Abdomen / Q000469:parasitology; D000413:Alaska; D000818:Animals; D001106:Archaeology; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000469:parasitology*; D002589:Cestoda / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009027:Mortuary Practice; D010063:Ovum; D010163:Paleontology; D012863:Skeleton