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What diseases did ancient people have? How did they try to treat themselves? Did they nurse their relatives back to health or leave them to die? And how did they treat their teeth? Every week, renowned anthropologist Stanislav Drobyshevsky talks about science and humanity. The topic of this episode is diseases. 00:00 "Drobyshevsky. Homo sapiens" 01:14 "Neanderthals had a heightened sensitivity to pain" 04:25 About control and emotions 05:00 About premature birth 06:01 What does paleopathology study 08:05 "The worse the skeleton, the longer the life expectancy" 16:20 About deaths from injuries 18:32 About the evolution of the fist and face 24:08 About caring for loved ones 28:47 "There were no epidemics in ancient times!" 33:30 "Poor Neanderthals" 38:00 About the beginnings of medicine in the Stone Age 41:30 How they treated teeth 44:01 About markers of non-specific stress 46:00 About ancient medical technologies 48:05 Did ancient people suffer from modern diseases RTVI News - all the main events in 24/7 format: / myrtvi Politics, art, science, psychology - all in interview format: / @rtvi_usamerica Read and watch the news on the RTVI website: http://www.rtvi.com Also, watch all the most important and interesting things in our telegram channel: https://t.me/rtvimain And subscribe to RTVI on other social networks: Facebook: / myrtvi VKontakte: http://vk.com/rtvi Twitter: / rtvi Instagram: / rtvichannel Odnoklassniki: https://ok.ru/rtvi We also have a telegram channel "Takoe" sections with news from the world of music, cinema and the Internet: https://t.me/rtvireal And "Takoe" public page on VKontakte: https://vk.com/takoe_rtvi