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Question

The purpose of this assignment is to analyze and evaluate an empirical research study that uses paleopathology to understand health and disease in the past. You will pretend to be a bioarchaeologist working with a research team to assess research studies recently completed in the field of paleopathology. This work is a crucial first step that will help your team design a sophisticated study that builds on the work and conclusions of other scholars in the field. With assistance from the ASU Library's tutorials, you will find a peer-reviewed, empirical research article on a study that utilizes paleopathology (the study of disease in ancient populations through the examination of human remains) to investigate health in a past population. You will carefully read and analyze your article to determine its central research question, methods used, main results, and conclusion. You will then conduct your assessment of the study's contribution to understanding health and disease in the past, the limitations of using skeletal evidence to draw conclusions about health in the past, and its strengths in utilizing additional lines of evidence.