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"The Possibility Of Ptsd In Roman Soldiers Stationed At Vindolanda On The British Frontier", Emma Kelly
"The Possibility Of Ptsd In Roman Soldiers Stationed At Vindolanda On The British Frontier", Emma Kelly
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In the late 1970’s, at Vindolanda, a fort near Hadrian’s wall on the northern frontier of Roman Britain, archaeologists first discovered a series of tablets with writing dating to the first and second centuries C.E. Since the initial discoveries, more tablets have been discovered at the same site; the current body of writing from Vindolanda now numbers upwards of one thousand tablets. These documents, now called the Vindolanda tablets, are an extremely rare example of primary source documents from the Roman Empire, and scholars have used them to determine everything from the ethnic makeup of the Roman army to early …