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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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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JAS中的古病理学：回顾与展望

古病理学领域与考古学和科学密切相关，并为《考古科学杂志》的读者提供了许多探索人类和动物健康与疾病的文章。除了对古病理学历史的简要回顾，并通过对过去50年来对该杂志的贡献的评估，对未来的研究提出了建议。这些建议包括整合理论范式，强调社会行为和环境背景在疾病过程中发挥的复杂作用，疾病和病症之间的综合征关系，以及避免笛卡尔的二元论认识论框架（身体/文化，自然/养育），作为将身体概念化为完全纠缠在关系实体中的手段，而不是作为一个独立的实体，所有其他相互作用。对古病理学，实际上是考古学和科学，忽视不平等和长期不平等的伦理问题的批判性认识，也被视为对过去生活的健全认识的重要步骤。

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来源期刊

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.