Cranial trephination and infectious disease in the Eastern Mediterranean: The evidence from two elite brothers from Late Bronze Megiddo, Israel

• Rachel Kalisher ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rachel_kalisher@brown.edu

  Affiliation Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7765-2352

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• Melissa S. Cradic,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of History, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Matthew J. Adams,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation W.F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9447-6277

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• Mario A. S. Martin,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, Institute of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Innsbruck, Vienna, Austria

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• Israel Finkelstein

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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