Abstrakt
Issue of the Journal for the History of Sciences and Technology (DVT) focused on the archaeology of medicine. The idea of preparing such a thematic journal issue or a composite book came to my mind during the European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting in Bern in September 2019, where I co-organized, together with Dr. Christina Aamodt, a session entitled "Archaeology of Medicine and Healing in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Europe." Still, during the concluding discussion of this session, the preparation of several collective volumes, reflecting this fascinating but relatively neglected discipline in various chronological eras and geographical units, was agreed on with the session participants.
Contrary to the discussed session, papers in this issue are not restricted chronologically or regionally. The chronological span of the discussed paper topics is almost four millennia. The chronologically oldest paper deals with the Bronze Age (3rd-2nd mill. BC); the youngest topic is based in the High Middle Ages (12th-13th century AD).