Paleopathology in the JAS: Peering back and looking forward

IF 2.6 1区地球科学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2025.106205

Anne L. Grauer , Rebecca L. Gowland

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Abstract

The field of paleopathology is closely linked with both archaeology and science and has provided readers of the Journal of Archaeological Science with many articles exploring human and animal health and disease in the past. Along with a brief review of the history of paleopathology, and through an evaluation of contributions to the Journal over the past 50 years, suggestions for future research are offered. These suggestions include incorporating theoretical paradigms emphasizing complex roles that social behavior and environmental contexts play in disease processes, syndemic relationships between diseases and conditions, and avoiding a Cartesian epistemological framework of dualisms (body/culture, nature/nurture) as a means to conceptualize the body as fully entangled within relational entities, rather than as a separate entity upon which all else inter-acts. Critical recognition of ways in which paleopathology, and indeed, archaeology and science, has ignored ethical issues of inequality and perpetuated inequity is also addressed as essential steps towards robust knowledge of life in the past.

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Journal of Archaeological Science 地学-地球科学综合

CiteScore

6.10

自引率

7.10%

发文量

112

审稿时长

49 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of Archaeological Science is aimed at archaeologists and scientists with particular interests in advancing the development and application of scientific techniques and methodologies to all areas of archaeology. This established monthly journal publishes focus articles, original research papers and major review articles, of wide archaeological significance. The journal provides an international forum for archaeologists and scientists from widely different scientific backgrounds who share a common interest in developing and applying scientific methods to inform major debates through improving the quality and reliability of scientific information derived from archaeological research.