Department of Archaeology, College of Humanities, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, UK.
Archaeology and Palaeoecology, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK.
Int J Paleopathol. 2022 Sep;38:115-122. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2022.07.003. Epub 2022 Jul 28.
This article explores the potential care provided to a middle-aged man who had a suite of injuries evident in his skeleton, most notably an obturator fracture dislocation in his left hip.
The skeleton derived from the Late Medieval Gaelic population buried at Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
A transdisciplinary bioarchaeology of care approach was adopted to undertake a phenomenological study of an individual with an acquired disability.
The man would have required intensive nursing care in the months following the initial injury, and longer-term accommodations may have been made by the wider community to support him.
Use of a transdisciplinary bioarchaeology of care approach enables important insights to be gained concerning the social impact of disability on the affected individual, his kin, and wider community.
This study achieves a new level of integration of bioarchaeological findings with archaeological, historical, and ethno-historical sources, thereby enabling a phenomenological approach to interpretation of life after acquired disability. This is the first study to allow such an intimate insight into lived experience and it provides a model for bioarchaeology of care analysis of individuals from historical eras.
These include difficulties in identifying the nature of a long-standing complex injury.
Further explorations of the bioarchaeology of care in historical time periods should incorporate a similarly wide range of transdisciplinary sources to enrich interpretations of the lived experiences of individuals, their care-givers and broader communities.
本文探讨了为一名中年男子提供的潜在护理，该男子骨骼上有一系列损伤，尤其是左髋的闭孔骨折脱位。
骨骼来自爱尔兰多尼戈尔郡巴利哈纳的中世纪盖尔人墓地。
采用跨学科关怀生物考古学方法，对一名获得性残疾个体进行现象学研究。
该男子在初始损伤后的几个月内需要 intensive nursing care，更长期的住宿可能由更广泛的社区提供以支持他。
使用跨学科关怀生物考古学方法，可以深入了解残疾对受影响个体、他的亲属和更广泛社区的社会影响。
本研究在生物考古学发现与考古学、历史和民族历史学资料的整合方面达到了新的水平，从而能够对后天残疾后的生活进行现象学解释。这是首次允许对生活体验进行如此亲密的洞察，并为关怀生物考古学对历史时期个体的分析提供了模型。
这些包括识别长期复杂损伤性质的困难。
在历史时期，进一步探索关怀生物考古学应纳入同样广泛的跨学科来源，以丰富对个体、其照顾者和更广泛社区生活体验的解释。
