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Comment on the Supposed Evidence for Goiter in Pre-Columbian Guatemala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Isidor Greenwald
Isidor Greenwald*
Affiliation:
New York University College of Medicine, New York, N. Y.
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Abstract

Borhegyi and Scrimshaw's identification of goiter on two prehistoric pottery figurines from Guatemala is questioned and their discussion of iodine deficiency as the cause of endemic goiter is challenged.

Type
Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , October 1959 , pp. 268 - 269
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1959

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