الحالة الصحية لإنسان موقع كاف أم تويزة (الطارف)‎ : دراسة باليوأنتربولوجية و باليوباتولوجية للجمجمة

Abstract EN

Archaeological excavations revealed the presence of humanbones dating back millions of years, found in the sedimentsleft by ancientlakes, swamps and rivers in manyarchaeological sites.

As erosionreducestheseancientsedimentarylayers, fossilsrevealsmall fragments of bones and teeth, and thus the remains of ourhumanancestors are spread among the primitives, as archaeologistssearch for boneevidencerelated to prehistorichumanforms, in order to studythemfromtheiranatomical, biological and structural aspects whichiscalledpaleoanthropology, wherewe chose a skulldiscovered at the “Kaa'fUmmTouizah” site, preserved in the reserves of the National Bardo Museum.

As for the additional extra skeleton, itispreserved in the research center in prehistoric times, with the aim of knowingitsmorphologicalcharacteristics by following the standard metricmethodology of the bones of the skull.

After a carefulexamination of the bonesthrough the paleopathologicalstudy, someimpairments and pathologicalimbalanceswerediagnosedwith the help of modern medical diagnostic methods, whichhelped us to know the healthstatus of ancientsocieties, and italsoallows us to give information about the humans' way of life in pasteras, as well as theirdiseases and causes of death.