History of Biomedicine - Indigenous Cultures
- Maps of Ancient Earth (510 - 50 million years ago) - Dinosauria On-Line
- Early Human Phylogeny - Smithsonian (US)
- How Humans Evolved [online book; P Park et al.] - University of Illinois (US)
- Human Prehistory: An Exhibition - (GR)
- On the Physical Characteristics of Humans - Washington State Univ.
- About Homo Erectus [J Sept]
- Hunger and Fear [R Gore] - Nat'l Geographic
- The Human Origins and Evolution in Africa [J Sept] - U of Indiana (US),
and Becoming Human - Institute of Human Origins
- About the Toba catastrophe theory [SH Ambrose] - via Bradshaw Foundation
- Paleovegetation Maps (since the last glacial max.) [J Adams]
- Neanderthal Museum [G-C Weniger, in German] - (DE),
and some pathological aspects of Neanderthal skeletons - Wikipedia
- 'Venus of Willendorf' [ca. 20 - 22,000 B.C.; CLCE Witcombe]
- Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigacion de Altamira [in Spanish/English] - (ES)
- The Cave of Lascaux,
and the Cave Paintings at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc - French Ministry of Culture.
- Signs of Consciousness (paleopsychological speculations) [A Cheyne] - (CA)
- Paleopatologia.it (in Italian)
- Medical Views on Prehistoric Representations of Human Hands [PA Janssens] - Med Hist, Oct 1957, via PubMedCentral
- The Paleolithic Diet Page
- Origins & Evolution of Human Diet - ICAES
- Stomach Ulcers' Prehistoric Origins Uncovered - Med News Today, Feb 2007
- Remains of world's oldest human brain found in Armenia - via the Stone Pages (IT)
- Stone age skull surgery in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [Piek et al.; abstract only] - Neurosurgery 1999, via PubMed
- The Iceman's Last Meal [B Fowler] - NOVA,
and a Peek into the Iceman's Prehistoric Medicine Kit [J Wilford]
- Prehistoric Medicine - Wikipedia
- On Primitive Medicine - Dodd Memorial Library, CMC Vellore
- On Primitive Medicine [AS Lyons] - HealthGuidance
- Medicine in Prehistoric Times [ppt slides] - HealthGuidance
- Notes on Prehistoric Medicine - via Tiscali (UK)
- Rock Art [links]
- Internet African History Sourcebook [P Halsall]
- Old African Civilizations [R Hooker] - Washington State Univ.
- Issues in African History [J Giblin] - Univ of Iowa (US)
- On Yoruba Medicine - Wikipedia
- Art That Heals: The Images as Medicine in Ethiopia - Univ of Iowa (US)
- To Cure and Protect: Sickness and Health in African Art , past exhibit at US Nat'l Museum of Health & Medicine
- About Laiboni: diviners, ritual experts and medicine men (in the Maasai society)
- Brief Note on Witch doctors in Africa - (ZA)
- Fetichism in West Africa [R Hamill Nassau] - Sacred Texts
- Voodoos and Obeahs [JJ Williams] - Sacred Texts
- Voodoo Medicine Still Going Strong: A Tale of Melanoma, Faith, and Failure [Beyeler et al.]( subscription required for full access) - Arch Dermatol, Jan 2008
- Primitive Medicine and Folklore - Encyclopedia Britannica
- On the Origin of Medicine [W Osler; 1923 printing] - Etext Center, Univ of Virginia (US)
- About Aboriginal Spirituality and Dreamtime - aboriginalaustralia.com,
and Healing Secrets of Aboriginal Bush Medicine - (AU)
- Early Images of the Australian Aborigines - Monash (AU)
- Aboriginal Plant Use in South-Eastern Australia
- About Some Old Medicinal Plants - Australian Nat'l Botanic Garden
- Use of Insects by Australian Aborigines [R. Cherry]
- Beetles as Religious Symbols [Y Cambefort]
- Remedies, Rumors, Cures [marine products] - Ocean Planet, Smithsonian Inst (US)
- Snake Mythology - University of Massachusetts (US)
- Plant Trivia Timeline (from a botanist's viewpoint) - Huntington Botanical Gardens
- Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen - Missouri Botanical Garden (US)
- On Traditional Medicine - WHO/Western Pacific
- A brief outline of the History of Herbalism [C Hobbs] - HealthWorld
- American Indian Ethnobotany Database [D Moerman] - Univ of Michigan
- Intertooth Patterns of Hypoplasia Expression: Implications for Child Health in the Classic Maya Collapse [LE Wright], 1997
- Native Health Databases (North American indigenous peoples) - Univ of New Mexico
- Natural Products as Medicinally Useful Agents [AT Sneden]
- Spices - exotic flavors and medicines - UCLA (US)
- Medicinal Herb Garden - University of Washington (US)
- Dictionary of Botanical Epithets [C Griffith]
- Online Archive of American Folk Medicine - UCLA (US)
- About Vagina Dentata - Wikipedia
- Searching for Folk Medicine [enter 'folk medicine' in search box] against the NewCrop Plant Database at Purdue (US)
- Mythical Plants of the Middle Ages [JL Matterer]
- Ferns and Man in New Guinea [JR Croft] - (AU)
- A Modern Herbal [M Grieve; 1931] - Botanical.Com (US)
- Herbals: Therapeutic and Adverse Effects [bibliography Jul 2000; VM Hudson]
- A Herbal Encyclopedia - NaturalArk
- Folk Medicine in Texas - The Handbook of Texas (US)
- Ozarkian and Haitian Folk Medicine [B Thomas-Stevenson]
- Phytochemical & Ethnobotanical Databases [J Duke] - ARS (US)
- Traditional (Native American) Indian Medicine Treatment of Chronic Illness [LE Mehl-Madrona]
- Pharmacognosy links - The American Society of Pharmacognosy
- The Chemistry of Garlic Health Benefits - HealthWorld
- On the History of Aloe Vera
- The Wealth of the Rainforest - Pharmacy to the World
- About some Medicinal Plants in Eastern Peru
- On "Pre-Columbian Surgery" [O Fernandez]
- Cranial Surgery in Ancient Mesoamerica [V Tiesler Blos]
- On the History of Brain Surgery [Mangiardi and Kane] - Aesculap
- Trephination, an ancient surgery - Oral Sciences, Univ of Illinois/Chicago
- On Pre-Columbian Trephination [CA Philips] - AANS (US)
- About Hallucinogenic Mushrooms - Sputnik Psilocybe Mushroom FAQs
- A Mummy Locator [JM Deem]
- Life and Death in Ancient Mexico
- About Lophophora williamsii (Peyote) - Wikipedia
- Traditional Healing in the Arctic Region - NLM (US)
- On The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge [about the Tukano, Kuna and Iñupiat societies; archived material]
- About Folk Medicine in Hispanics in SW U.S. [N Neff]
- Crow Creek Massacre Paleopathology [JB Gregg] - (US)
- On Health & Disease in the New World [M Micozzi] - via Millersville Univ. of Pennsylvania (US)
- "Death by Disease" [A F Ramenofsky; reprint] - Millersville Univ. of Pennsylvania (US)
- Depopulation of American natives from disease - Wikipedia
- Medicine in the Americas (historical works) - History of Medicine Div., NLM /US)
- Native American Knowledge [KM Strom]
- US 19th-century Doctors' Thoughts about Native American Medicine - NLM (US)
- Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas [DL Ashliman] - Univ. of Pittsburg (US)
- On the Origin of the Werewolf Legend (Lycantrophy) [S Nur-Ul-Alam]
- Germania [Tacitus 1st century AD] - Medieval Source Book (P Halsall)
- The Religion of the North - Hrafnar
- Havamal [transl. into English] - via Univ of Pittsburgh
- Did Egil Skalla-Grimson suffer from Paget's Disease? [JL Byock]
- The SagaNet (Icelandic medieval literature) - (IS)
- On the History and Origin of the Runes
- A picture of Henbane Hyoscyamus Niger - Nordens Flora/Project Runeberg (SE)
- Om Kisamor [D Malmsten] (in Swedish)
- Bulfinch's Mythology [T Bulfinch / B Fisher]
- To what extent is modern medical theory and practice influenced by its more primitive forms? [M Wischik]
- WHO International Standard Terminologies on Traditional Medicine in the Western Pacific Region
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