Bioarqueología del cuidado en Maltrata, Veracruz, México: El caso de las enfermedades treponémicas en la infancia.

Summary

This is an abstract from the "(De)Pathologizing the Past: New Perspectives on Intervention and Modification as Care in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In this work, we propose to know the type of care received by a girl between eight and ten years of age, who suffered from possible congenital syphilis in the chronic stage in the pre-Hispanic population of the Maltrata valley. To do this, we are based on the postulates of the bioarchaeology of care and apply it to this case study that comes from the middle and upper Preclassic period, where the presence of Treponema pallidum has been diagnosed at a paleopathological level. Currently, if patients are not treated in early stages, these types of infections can cause physical impairments and even death. So the care and attention that sick people can receive is key to ensuring their health and survival. Undertaking this task constitutes a useful reflective exercise to learn more about the behavior of solidarity in ancient human populations, related to the processes of care and attention to the sick.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• (De)Pathologizing the Past: New Perspectives on Intervention and Modification as Care in the Americas

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Abstract Id(s): 50280