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Palaeopathological Evidence of Infectious Disease in a Skeletal Population from Late Medieval Riga, Latvia (15Th-17Th Centuries AD) Cover

Palaeopathological Evidence of Infectious Disease in a Skeletal Population from Late Medieval Riga, Latvia (15Th-17Th Centuries AD)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/prolas-2017-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2255-890X | Journal ISSN: 1407-009X
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 7
Submitted on: Aug 31, 2015
Accepted on: Oct 18, 2016
Published on: Jun 1, 2017
Published by: Latvian Academy of Sciences
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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