Hydatid disease (<i>Echinococcosis granulosis)</i> diagnosis from skeletal osteolytic lesions in an early seventh‐millennium <scp>BP</scp> forager community from preagricultural northern Vietnam

Abstract

While hydatid disease has previously been found in pre-agricultural communities, the high prevalence at Con Co Ngua is non-incidental. We propose that the presence of wild canids and management of wild buffalo and deer increased the risk of disease transmission. These findings further reveal subsistence complexity among hunter-gatherers living millennia prior to the adoption of farming in Southeast Asia.