Djillali HADJOUIS DISEASE AND MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS DURING THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES PERIOD IN THE VAL-DE-MARNE

Abstract

Archaeology provides evidence for numerous diseases and musculoskeletal disorders in populations, from the Neolithic to the Modern period, in the south-east Parisian area. Musculoskeletal disorders, rarely identified or described in the anthropological corpora from excavations, are examined and indicate that they are caused by various postural mechanisms resulting from articular anomalies and malformations. The spinal column and the lower limbs are, each in turn, the cause and effect of bad postural adaptation. Besides these often-disabling disorders, other diseases identified, and in some cases well documented, illustrate the state of health of populations in the Val-de-Marne area.

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