Why do disability archeology? (Replay)

Cover - Handicap - when archeology enlightens us, by Valérie Delattre. © Éditions Le Pommier

By: Caroline Lachowsky

Why archeology of disability? How the first men of ancient societies took care (or not) of the sick, different bodies, disability. When archeology enlightens us ...

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On this International Day of Disability, we will go back in time to ask ourselves how the first men, ancient societies took charge of the different bodies, the infirm, the injured, the sick, the blind, the disabled.

Were they rejected, cared for, accompanied, fitted? How can archeology shed light on the different ways that men have found over the ages to take care of the most vulnerable? What do these forms of solidarity or rejection say about us? And how can this also feed our own reflection on disability today?

With Valérie Delattre , archaeo-anthropologist at INRAP (National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research) for her work Handicap : when archeology sheds light on us.

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