, hereOccasionally issues of journals where one might not normally think to
look produce thematic issues of interest. Availability online makes them
much more discoverable. A case in point:
RCC Perspectives (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society)
2012/03: Sickness, Hunger, War, and Religion: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Edited by Michaela Harbeck, Kristin von Heyking, and Heiner Schwarzberg
This volume presents exciting syntheses between research in the
fields of archaeology, anthropology, and history. Moving from prehistory
to the medieval period, six chapters look at humanity’s struggles with
subsistence, religious belief, ill-health, death, and warfare in a
variety of global landscapes, and show how, by sharing expertise and
combining methodological approaches, we can advance our understanding of
our common past.
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Contents
Introduction
Michaela Harbeck, Kristin von Heyking, and Heiner Schwarzberg
Life in Ancient Egypt: Akhentanen, the Armarna Period, and Tutankhamun
Barry Kemp and Albert Zink
Mesolithic-Neolithic Transformations: The Populations of theDanube Gorges
Dušan Borić, Marija Radović, and Sofija Stefanović
Syphilis in South America: A Closer Look at Pre-Contact Bolivia
Heiko Prümers, Martin Trautmann, Iris Trautmann, Sandra Lösch, and Carsten Pusch
History of the Plague
The Plague—An Introduction
Ingrid Wiechmann
The Origin and Early Spread of Yersinia pestis and of Epidemic Plague: Paleobiological and Historical Viewpoints
Ole Benedictow
The Archaeology of the Second Plague Pandemic: An Overview of French Funerary Contexts
Raffaella Bianucci and Sacha Kacki
Hypothyroidism in Switzerland
Christina Papageorgopoulou, Kaspar Staub, and Frank Rühli
The Ancient Battlefield at Kalkriese
Birgit Großkopf, Achim Rost, and Susanne Wilbers-Rost
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