Worth remembering when some asshat tell us we'd be "left to die" in the "old days."
Disability, chronic illness, & adaptions to it aren't new. Like ochre pigments, these things have been with us as long as we've existed.
Disabled people have always been here, & been cared for like anyone else…
Disability, chronic illness, & adaptions to it aren't new. Like ochre pigments, these things have been with us as long as we've existed.
Disabled people have always been here, & been cared for like anyone else…
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Oh dang, are we talking about ancient prosthetics in here?!
My absolute *favorite* ancient prosthetic is this 2,200-year-old leg from prehistoric China! It was made of wood, ox horn, leather, and horse hoof, and made for a man with a fused knee joint.
My absolute *favorite* ancient prosthetic is this 2,200-year-old leg from prehistoric China! It was made of wood, ox horn, leather, and horse hoof, and made for a man with a fused knee joint.
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Someone who insists a society would choose cruelty over love reveals nothing of historical truth and everything of themselves
But the history of medicine is full of reminders that we've been cherished by our communities, it's not all death & fuckery.
A dig of a 7th century street in York turned up two inact bodies:
A disabled woman...
...and a Black man.
Just messing around - I love anthropology. It's amazing what burial sites can teach us about our own prevailing nature.
They'll believe in Leif's journey to America but not this lol