El proceso de alud-atención-enfermedad y muerte en la mujer romanaEstudio antropológico, arqueológico y etnohitórico en la población de Augusta Emerita

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This thesis aims to study the health processes in the women found in Emerita Augusta, from the High and Low Empire periods, by means of bioanthropological and paleopathological studies, establishing a comparative between historiographical and archaeological sources. The aim is to provide information related to the living conditions using a paleopathological and statistical analysis, in order to reconstruct the bio-socio-cultural reality of women. This study was set up due to the importance of the historical set and because of the scarcity of previous researches dealing with skeletal archaeological remains of the city. For this reason, it is postulated that it exists an interrelationship between the exposed information in historical, epigraphic and archaeological sources from Emerita Augusta, with the results obtained in the bioanthropological and paleopathological analysis when it comes to the process of health-disease-attention and death, as well as to cultural aspects related to the occupation. The sample of the study corresponds to three funerary archaeological sites, formed by 165 individuals of which, after the preliminary and decisive study of gender and age, it was obtained that a total of 33 women could be studied. Based on paleopathological methods, indicators of occupational stress will be examined, describing the pathologies found and the paleoepidemiological and paleodemographical results will be analysed by means of the statistical method. After the research, it is concluded that it consists of a group of adult women of short height, with poor health status for their age, who belong to a working class and whose access to health was very low or non-existent.