Polychronic knowledge of Health and Healthcare and Polythetic Culture : A Diachronic Perspective

Abstract

The geological stratigraphy and archaeological record documents the patterns of continuous adaptation of human being over generations. However, within the archaeological discourse, the concept of health and healthcare has always conversed as disease evidence or injuries in palaeopathology or occasional description of surgical involvement (interface between survival need and disease) as a mechanism or skill of healing. Bio-anthropologist and archaeologist used to find out causal explanation for the reasons of death from the excavated skeleton by practising paleopathology (which includes palaeohistology. Paleoepidemiology, DNA analysis, and differential Analysis). But fails to create an informal space where biology unites with culture. This theoretical paper will critically examine the possibilities to highlight the diluted concept of health and healthcare in the archaeological debate of the organic evolution with the help of community-based archaeology with the acknowledgement examination of material residue to remodel past health in present as a bio-cultural component.