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Human circulation in Anatolia dates back thousands of years. In this process, the change that occurred with the effect of environmental factors and genetic structure caused physical differences while it also affected the shaping of disease types. It is understood that Western Anatolian Region is frequently exposed to congenital or acquired spinal disorders when compared to other regions of Anatolia in terms of Ancient Time skeletal diseases. In support of these findings, it attracts our attention that the pathological group that constitutes the majority in terms of their functions were mostly obtain from the Western regions of Anatolia particularly regarding the distribution of places of findings from the archaeological grotesques, which are thought to reflect the skeletal disorders (such diseases as Potts and so on). This study is a holistic study. With this approach, it aims to provide clues about the skeletal health and lifestyle of the Ancient Western Anatolian societies at the connection point between the results of paleopathological examination of the skeletons of the Greek Roman Period and the place (findspot) and purpose of use of the pathological grotesques. For this purpose, we made a spatial comparison of the issues, in which the Ancient Age Western Anatolia societies stands out with other geographies of Anatolia in terms of skeletal diseases. The study was prepared by using qualitative analysis method in the light of paleopathology results obtained by scanning Archaeometry Results (between 1995 and 2015), and of written sources and archaeological findings.

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