Prehistoric, Ancient and Medieval Medicine

Assoc. Prof. Tomáš Alušík, Ph.D. is a Classical archaeologist, historian and palaeopathologist, currently an Associate Professor at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague.Pavla Alušíková Dostalíková, BA, DiS. is a cultural historian-archaeologist and an archaeological illustrator and photographer. She is currently an External Research Affiliate of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague.Dr Milena Melfi is a Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at the Faculty of Classics of the University of Oxford, and Curator of the Cast Gallery in the Ashmolean Museum.Conan Turlough Doyle, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of medieval English at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague.Mag. Dr. Rupert Breitwieser works as a senior fellow at Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Department of Antiquities.

• List of Figures and Tables Foreword Editors and Contributors Introduction: Archaeology and History of Medicine of the Prehistoric to Medieval Periods in the Twenty-first Century – Tomáš AlušíkChapter 01: Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan: A Sanctuary for Medical Treatment and Healing for the Injured and Ailing Members of its Neanderthal and Proto-Neolithic H. sapiens Occupants – Anagnostis P. AgelarakisChapter 02: Disease and Medicine in the Hittite Kingdom – Robert Arnott (†)Chapter 03: An Akkadian Ritual Against ‘Mountain Fever’ – Letizia SavinoChapter 04: The Life after the Pyramid Age: A Secondary Cemetery at Djedkare’s Necropolis at Saqqara (Egypt) – Hana VymazalováChapter 05: The Earliest Documented Healers/Physicians in the Ancient Greek World (c. 3500/3000-500 BC) – Tomáš AlušíkChapter 06: The Maintenance of Female Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Prehistoric Aegean – Brandelyn AndresChapter 07: Dealing with Epidemics in Antiquity - Social Reactions and Emotions – Rupert BreitwieserChapter 08: An Archaeology of Temperaments, or from Four Humours to Four Temperaments – Sylva FischerováChapter 09: The Athenian Plague: an Historical Hoax? – Lutz Alexander GraumannChapter 10: ‘You Need to Sail to Antikyra’: Healing Classical Madness – Athanasios SiderisChapter 11: The Asklepieion of Paros: Restudy of the Old Evidence and New Archival Sources – Tomáš Alušík and Pavla Alušíková DostalíkováChapter 12: Cure and Cult at the Asklepieion of Lebena in Crete – Milena MelfiChapter 13: Healing Places in the Ancient World: So-Called Healing Sanctuaries Revisited. New Perspectives on Archaeological Sites in Central Italy (4th – 1st Century BC) – Velia BenthinChapter 14: Nutrition and Health in Imperial Roman Populations with Implications for Tuberculosis – Jared J. EddyChapter 15: The Rhetoric of Healing: Strategies of Persuasion in Greek Healing Prayers and Exorcisms – Daniel VaucherChapter 16: Pilgrimage to the Healing Cults in the Near East and Egypt During Late Antiquity: Continuity Between Pagan and Christian Antiquity – Vlastimil DrbalChapter 17: From Asklepieion to Kosmidion? Temple Sleep: A Dynamic Ritual in Late Antiquity – Mark BeumerChapter 18: Temperament and Emotion: Embodied Emotion in Late Antique Medical Thought and Modern Paradigm Shifts in Neuroscience – Conan T. DoyleChapter 19: Hospitaller Care of the Order of St John in the Holy Land – Robin PánekChapter 20: The Earliest Written Records of Medieval Hospitals in the Territory of Present-Day Slovakia – Matej Gogola