The unwritten history of medical treatment: Evidence for ritual-healers and their activities in the pre-literate past.
International journal of paleopathology September 1, 2021 Christopher J Knüsel 3 citations
To reveal the presence and activities of healers from funerary contexts. Ethnohistoric and ethnographic textual descriptions and the bioarchaeological record. A synthesis of human remains, grave contexts, and funerary objects. The capacity to act as a "healer" forms part of the social identity of a diverse range of uniquely specialized individuals cross-culturally who also perform a variety of...