Theory and Practice in the Bioarchaeology of Care

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introducing the Bioarchaeology of Care

   • Lorna Tilley

   Pages 1-11

3. Setting the Scene for a Bioarchaeology of Care

   • Lorna Tilley

   Pages 13-64

4. Context for a Bioarchaeology of Care

   • Lorna Tilley

   Pages 65-94

5. The Origins of Care

   • Lorna Tilley

   Pages 95-126

6. Agency, Identity and the Bioarchaeology of Care

   • Lorna Tilley

   Pages 127-152

7. The Bioarchaeology of Care Methodology: Stages 1–3

   • Lorna Tilley

   Pages 153-176

8. The Bioarchaeology of Care Methodology: Stage 4

   • Lorna Tilley

   Pages 177-190

9. Survival with Severe Disability: A Case of Long-Term Care in Neolithic Vietnam (Case Study 1)

   • Lorna Tilley

   Pages 191-218

10. Care Among the Neandertals: La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 and La Ferrassie 1 (Case Study 2)

    • Lorna Tilley

    Pages 219-257

11. Adjustment and Inclusion in the British Neolithic: Lanhill Burial 7 and His Community (Case Study 3)

    • Lorna Tilley

    Pages 259-287

12. Where to from Here? Current Status and Future Directions for the Bioarchaeology of Care

    • Lorna Tilley

    Pages 289-299

13. Back Matter

    Pages 301-319

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This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to, and explanation of, the theory and practice of the ‘bioarchaeology of care’, an original, fully theorised and contextualised case study-based approach designed to identify and interpret cases of care provision in prehistory.  The applied methodology comprises four stages of analysis, each building on the content of the preceding one(s), which provide the framework for this process.  Theory and Practice in the Bioarchaeology of Care is the primary source of information on this new approach and serves as a manual for its implementation. It elaborates the foundations on which the bioarchaeology of care is constructed; it leads the reader through the methodology; and it provides three detailed examples of prehistoric caregiving which illustrate how bioarchaeology of care analysis has the capacity to reveal aspects of past group and individual identity and lifeways which might otherwise have remained unknown.  

• Bioarchaeology of Care
• Biological selection and care
• Caregiving in archaeological theory
• Challenges to the inference of care
• Emotion and the origins of care
• Practical limitations of palaeopathology analysis

• Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  Lorna Tilley

Lorna Tilley is a latecomer to archaeology; she has a degree in psychology and experience in areas of health practice; health status and health outcomes assessment; and health policy development. Having completed a Graduate Diploma in archaeology and bioanthropology at the Australian National University, Canberra, in 2006, she submitted her doctoral dissertation, Towards a Bioarchaeology of Care: A contextualised approach for identifying and interpreting health-related care provision in prehistory, in early 2013.

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