Table of Contents

Contributors vii Introduction xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 Demographic Patterns Distinctive of Epidemic Cemeteries in Archaeological Samples 1 Dominique Castex and Sacha Kacki 2 Characterization of the Funeral Groups Associated with Plague Epidemics 13 Stefan Tzortzis and Michel Signoli 3 Paleogenetics and Past Infections: the Two Faces of the Coin of Human Immune Evolution 21 Laurent Abi-Rached and Didier Raoult 4 A Personal View of How Paleomicrobiology Aids Our Understanding of the Role of Lice in Plague Pandemics 29 Didier Raoult 5 Sources of materials for Paleomicrobiology 39 Gerard Aboudharam 6 Paleomicrobiology Data: Authentification and Interpretation 51 Michel Drancourt 7 Human Coprolites as a Source for Paleomicrobiology 59 Sandra Appelt, Michel Drancourt, and Matthieu Le Bailly 8 Ancient Resistome 75 Abiola Olumuyiwa Olaitain and Jean-Marc Rolain 9 The History of Epidemic Typhus 81 Emmanouil Angelakis, Yassina Bechah, and Didier Raoult 10 Paleopathology of Human Infections: Old Bones, Antique Books, Ancient and Modern Molecules 93 Olivier Dutour 11 Past Bartonelloses 107 Pierre-Edouard Fournier 12 Paleomicrobiology Of Human Tuberculosis 113 Helen Donoghue 13 Paleomicrobiology of Leprosy 131 Mark Spigelman and Mauro Rubini 14 Past Intestinal Parasites 143 Matthieu Le Bailly and Adauto Araujo 15 Paleopathology and Paleomicrobiology of Malaria 155 Andreas Nerlich 16 History of Smallpox and Its Spread in Human Populations 161 Catherine Theves, Eric Crubezy, and Philippe Biagini 17 Cholera 173 Donatella Lippi, Eduardo Gotuzzo, and Saverio Caini 18 Human Lice in Paleoentomology and Paleomicrobiology 181 Rezak Drali, Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu, and Didier Raoult Index 191