Osteoporosis and vertebral trabecular bone health: an historico-anthropological perspective

Abstract

This brief review article aims to recapitulate the history of osteoporosis from the most ancient observations to the current clinical definition, by offering a perspective on trabecular bone health and degeneration, which has become of paramount important both in clinical, radiological and biological anthropological studies.

Keywords

• osteoporosis
• trabecular bone
• endocrinology
• history of anthropology
• biological anthropology
• palaeopathology