Archaeoparasitology of Korean Mummies
Archaeoparasitology is now a rapidly progressing research field, providing comprehensive context about parasitism of the past and the origins and evolution of each parasite species. As in other continents, historical parasitic infection patterns in East A
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Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Archaeoparasitological Research on Korean Mummies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evidence of Trematode Infection in Korean Mummies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parasitological Infection from the Joseon Period to the Twenty-First Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ancient Parasite Species Rarely Discovered in Korean Mummies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ancient DNA Analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other East Asian Mummies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cross-References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Abstract
Archaeoparasitology is now a rapidly progressing research field, providing comprehensive context about parasitism of the past and the origins and evolution of each parasite species. As in other continents, historical parasitic infection patterns in East Asia have been successfully reconstructed by archaeoparasitological research. By interdisciplinary collaboration with archaeologists, parasitologists in South Korea also have achieved meaningful academic progress in studies on various specimens uncovered at archaeological sites. Among them, coprolites of Korean mummies of the Joseon Dynasty period (1392–1910 CE) have been the M. Seo (*) Department of Parasitology, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, South Korea J. H. Hong Institute of Korean Archaeology and Ancient History, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea K. Reinhard School of Natural Resource Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA D. H. Shin (*) Institute of Forensic Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 D. H. Shin, R. Bianucci (eds.), The Handbook of Mummy Studies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1614-6_14-1
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most productive, due to their excellent preservation. Actually, Joseon mummies are now of central importance to parasitologists bringing to light the parasitic infection patterns of premodern Korean societies over broad temporal a
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