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Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer’s?

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Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer’s?

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Alzheimer’s in history: Medical texts from 2,500 years ago rarely mention of severe memory loss, suggesting today’s widespread dementia stems modern environments and lifestyles, a new USC analysis shows.

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Why would any group of humans not experience alzheimer’s?

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more…

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