Frailty or resilience? Hazard-based and cumulative phenotype approaches to discerning signals of health inequality in medieval London.

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Bioarchaeology uses human skeletal remains to reconstruct varied experiences of individuals and populations in the past, including patterns of health across time periods and cultural contexts. In the past three decades, bioarchaeological studies have highlighted the concept of "frailty," operationalizing it as increased risk of mortality or cumulative phenotypes. Using data from medieval London cemeteries, we...

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