(this is tif123 - I am not at my usual computer and forgot my password)
It's interesting that this comes up just as I have been working with a colleague on a paper about perceptions of disease in societies - such as in Rome, and how historians have built up a certain image of Rome as "clean", etc. This is from a physical anthro POV, so our evidence is about the general population, not the rulers in particular, which is one of the things I like about archaeology/anthropology - that we don't rely on texts and have a lot to say about people who are not those in power (even though the fancy tombs, etc. are the findings that tend to make the news).
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Date: 2012-10-27 01:07 am (UTC)It's interesting that this comes up just as I have been working with a colleague on a paper about perceptions of disease in societies - such as in Rome, and how historians have built up a certain image of Rome as "clean", etc. This is from a physical anthro POV, so our evidence is about the general population, not the rulers in particular, which is one of the things I like about archaeology/anthropology - that we don't rely on texts and have a lot to say about people who are not those in power (even though the fancy tombs, etc. are the findings that tend to make the news).