title: [Lead poisoning: towards a paleo-epidemiologic re-interpretation?].
abstract: Lead is a major public health issue. Its use has been increasing since Neolithic times, climaxing in the Ancient Rome and the nineteenth century. Defining the frequency of plumbism before modern times proves to be a difficult matter because of its various and delayed symptoms, and of diagenetic processes affecting bones. After reviewing various methods of lead measurement in bone and tooth, we will expose ways to ascertain lead measurement interpretation in order to estimate the epidemiology of plumbism in ancient times.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bourdieu
mesh_terms: D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000737:chemistry; D005602:France; D006115:Greece; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D007854:Lead / Q000032:analysis; D007855:Lead Poisoning / Q000266:history*; D008669:Metallurgy / Q000266:history; D008906:Mining / Q000266:history; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000266:history*; D010164:Paleopathology / Q000266:history*; D012384:Rome
chemical_list: D007854:Lead