Considering the palaeoepidemiological implications of socioeconomic and environmental change in Southeast Asia

Human health change during prehistory is often assumed to be intimately associated with changes to sociopolitical complexity and subsistence regime. It is only possible to theorise about how, when and why populations may have experienced deteriorations in health, however, by taking into account context-specific mechanisms behind changes. In mainland Southeast Asia, for instance, changes to subsistence at the introduction of agricultural...