Tytuł pozycji:
Archaeological Reports
- Tytuł:
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Archaeological Reports
Archäologische Berichte
A multidisciplinary assessment of disability in early medieval Culmen, Poland
- Autorzy:
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Chudziak, Wojciech
Kozłowski, Tomasz
Matczak, Magdalena Domicela
- Data publikacji:
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2023
- Wydawca:
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Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
- Słowa kluczowe:
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biohistory
bioarchaeology
disability studies
Middle Ages
archaeology
paleopathology
archeologia
- Źródło:
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IAiE PAN, sygn. P 245
IAiE PAN, call no. P 245
IAiE PAN, call no. P 244
IAiE PAN, sygn. P 244
IAiE PAN, sygn. P 243
http://iaie.katalog.pan.pl/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=iaepan&index=BOCLC&term=ee95400634
IAiE PAN, call no. P 243
- Język:
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angielski
- Prawa:
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Licencja Creative Commons Uznanie autorstwa 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license
- Linki:
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https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/241052/content Link otwiera się w nowym oknie
- Dostawca treści:
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RCIN - Repozytorium Cyfrowe Instytutów Naukowych
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This study bridges a gap between palaeopathology and the textual analysis, with the aim of investigating which diseases and pathological lesions could have been associated with disability in Early Mediaeval Culmen in Poland. We used palaeopathological methods to examine 661 skeletons, as well as reviewed Early Mediaeval hagiographies and chronicles. The textual analysis revealed three types of disability: mobility difficulties, an abnormal posture, and blindness, which were also identified in the osteological materials from Culmen. Eight skeletons display lesions corresponding to Pott’s disease, poliomyelitis, leprosy, osteomyelitis, multiple myeloma, and amputation, which were identified as disabilities. The prevalence of disability depended on the age, with adults affected more frequently. This interdisciplinary study is the first to analyse people with disabilities on a population level, using textual sources and osteological materials from mediaeval Central Europe. The protocol for research on disability in archaeology presented by us may be applied to other archaeological contexts, also from sites outside Poland, from historical periods of time.
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