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I am looking for archaeological studies on injuries of Roman soldiers. This includes war injuries but also other physical problems like rheumatism with older soldiers.
Does anyone has any suggestion?
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I don't recall anything about soldiers, but there have been many studies on the gladiator graveyard in Ephesus. I can't figure out how to copy and paste on my phone, but if you go to something like Google Scholar and search you will find those studies.
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I can't recommend anything specifically but this looks interesting:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EC1mA...CFkQ6AEwBw
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Following on from my last post, the book is evidently based upon the author's PhD thesis. A detailed abstract of this can be found on this site, from which the complete thesis can also be downloaded:
https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/dspace/handle/10443/486
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Thank you for the reference. It is an interesting work, though it doesn't refer to archaeological evidence of wounded soldiers, at first sight.
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Thank you for the reference. Do you have access to the PDF file? My university library doesn't have access.
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You may find something in reports of the excavation of Roman cemeteries in the vicinity of forts and fortresses, such as Trentholme Drive in York, but the difficulty is always going to be differentiating between soldiers and civilians.
Michael King Macdona
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)