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Special Issue of Paleoparasitology
A global perspective on ancient parasites: Current research projects























Organized by Min Seo, Karl Reinhard, Dong Hoon Shin

Using a variety of recently developed research techniques, paleoparasitological research has rapidly developed in recent years, entering a new stage to better understand our ancestors’ parasitic infections across the world. Despite these achievements, there has not much opportunity for archaeoparasitologists to gather and share in-depth opinions. For this reason, the 14th International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA) held in Korea (Aug 19-24, 2018; EXCO) have provided very meaningful opportunities for the researchers concerned. The sessions were organized by archaeoparasitologists under the unified theme of "A global perspective on ancient parasites: Current research projects". In the sessions, many great studies were presented for parastologists, archaeologists, and paleopathologists from South Korea as we…

Our abstract will be presented at annual meeting of AAPA 2019:  Cleveland, March 27-30 (Huntington Convention Center Cleveland; Hilton Cleveland Downtown).

Session type:Poster
Session:Bioarchaeology of Urbanization: The Biological, Demographic, and Social Consequences of Population Increase and Agglomeration
Day:Friday, March 29
Time:Poster #17 8:00-12:00
Room:CC Room 22


Urbanization and Ancient Parasitism

DONG HOON SHIN1, SANG-YUCK SHIM2, HWA YOUNG LEE2, YONGJUN KIM1, JONG HA HONG1 and MIN SEO3

1Department of Anatomy, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 2Department of Archaeology, The Baekje Culture Foundation, 3Department of Parasitology, Dankook University College of Medicine

The impact of urbanization on human civilization, especially on the health status and disease states of ancient populations, is very large, because different kinds of infectious diseases newly emerged, became endemic or sometimes disappeared as urbanization progressed in human history. Archaeoparasi…

Our submitted abstract for the conference

Ancient Parasitism in Asian Societies with Different Pattern of Urbanization in History

Dong Hoon Shin1, and Min Seo2

1Lab of Bioanthropology, Paleopathology, and History of Diseases, Department of Anatomy/Institute of Forensic Science, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
2Department of Parasitology, Dankook University College of Medicine, Chonan, South Korea

Parasitic infection is a disease that cannot be only interpreted from a medical point of view because natural as well as sociocultural environments are closely related to the occurrence of parasitism in a certain society. In history, the pattern of parasitic infection also became different as the people’s lifestyle changed over time. Of them, urbanization might have been one of the most important events in the history of parasitism. By archaeological and anthropological studies, it is proven that there was a difference in the pattern of parasitism between the…

The 3rd Korea-Japan Paleopathology Forum 2019
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Date: May 23-24, 2019

Venue: Jeju National University Hospital, Jeju Island, South Korea
Organizing Committee:
Dong Hoon Shin (Seoul National University) Myeung Ju Kim (Dankook University)
Yuryang Jang (MND Agency for KIA Recovery & Identification)
Eun Jin Woo (Sejong University)

Scientific Committee:
Soong Deok Lee (Seoul National University)
Sunyoung Pak (Seoul National University) Dong Hoon Shin (Seoul National University) Hisashi Fujita (Niigata College of Nursing)
Shinji Harihara (The University of To…

I am invited to Scientific Committee of upcoming 23rd European Paleopathology Association meeting (Vilnius, Lithuania).

I am invited to Scientific Committee of upcoming VII Paleopathology Association meeting in South America (Sao Paulo, Brazil).

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PAMinSA VIII in Sao Paulo HP (upcoming)

PAMinSA VII in Argentina HP (Previous meeting)

We participated in the 3rd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of Paleopathology at Doigahama Anthropology Museum, Japan.



DNA Sequences of 28S rRNA and COI regions obtained from ancient Metagonimus yokogawai eggs found in the coprolites of Joseon Dynasty mummies 

Jong Ha Hong1, Chang Seok Oh1,2, Myeung Ju Kim3, Min Seo4,*, Dong Hoon Shin1,2,*

1Laboratory of Bioanthropology, Paleopathology and History of Diseases, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; 2Institute of Forensic Science, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; 3Department of Anatomy, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, South Korea; 4Department of Parasitology, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, South Korea; *Co-correspondences.

In this report, we present our research on Metagonimus yokogawai DNA sequences obtained from ancient parasite eggs remained in coprolite specimens of the 15th to 18th century Joseon mummies. We successfully ampli…

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My study on Korean mummy will appear in the next edition of National Geographic Reading Explorer....