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There was a pioneering speculation that the parasitism of mankind has changed continuously and sometimes dramatically in association with the social changes in history such as the emergence of complex societies or evolution of subsistence strategies. Though this assumption was based on the outcomes of archaeoparasitological studies at the Colorado Plateau of North America, very few supporting reports were available from the Eurasian continent to date. To corroborate this idea more convincingly, we aim to compare the parasitological results of different Eurasian archaeological sites where human populations of varying social complexity depended on different subsistence strategies throughout history. In this chapter, we thus reviewed archaeoparasitological reports on the Siberian native peoples as nomads, fishermen, and hunter-gatherers, Russian migrant-descendants, and Korean and Chinese pre-modern mummies as the people of agriculture-based society. The current report reveals that Reinhard and Araujo’s hypothesis (2008) about the relationship between serious parasitism and complex societies could be also applicable to the Old World archaeoparasitological cases.
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This research was supported by Basic Science Reseach Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea, the Ministry of Education (2020R1A2C1010708). A part of the present work was also funded by State Task (program XII.186.4, project No. AAAA-A17-117050400143-4 of Tyumen Scientific Center SB RAS).
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Slepchenko, S., Seo, M., Hong, J.H., Oh, C.S., Shin, D.H. (2020). Mummies and Skeletonized Individuals to Reveal the Relationship of Parasitism, Social Complexity, and Subsistence Strategy in Eurasian Continent. In: Shin, D.H., Bianucci, R. (eds) The Handbook of Mummy Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1614-6_45-1
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