James W. Wood

The Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples [and Comments and Reply]

James W. Wood, George R. Milner, Henry Harpending et al. · Current Anthropology · 1992 · 1.3K citations

Social Sciences, Archaeology, Paleontology +11

A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

Kirsten I. Bos, Verena J. Schuenemann, G. Brian Golding et al. · Nature · 2011 · 799 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Microbiology +15

A Theory of Preindustrial Population Dynamics Demography, Economy, and Well‐Being in Malthusian Systems

James W. Wood · Current Anthropology · 1998 · 287 citations

Social Sciences, Demography, Economics +15

Selectivity of Black Death mortality with respect to preexisting health

Sharon N. DeWitte, James W. Wood · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 272 citations

Social Sciences, Demography, History +15

Targeted enrichment of ancient pathogens yielding the pPCP1 plasmid of <i>Yersinia pestis</i> from victims of the Black Death

Verena J. Schuenemann, Kirsten I. Bos, Sharon N. DeWitte et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 260 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Microbiology +17