Medical archaeoparasitology: the connection between past and future

The article is devoted to the description of the formation, goals and objectives of medical archaeoparasitology, the research methods used by it, the relationship with other sciences of this field, the importance of its results for understanding the evolution of parasitic diseases under the influence of population migration, host change, and climate change.

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