Paleopathology is the study and application of methods and techniques for investigating diseases and related conditions from skeletal and soft tissue remains. The International Journal of Paleopathology (IJPP) will publish original and significant articles on human and animal (including hominids) disease, based upon the study of physical remains, including osseous, dental, and preserved soft tissues at a range of methodological levels, from direct observation to molecular, chemical, histological and radiographic analysis. Discussion of ways in which these methods can be applied to the reconstruction of health, disease and life histories in the past is central to the discipline, so the journal would also encourage papers covering interpretive and theoretical issues, and those that place the study of disease at the centre of a bioarchaeological or biocultural approach. Papers dealing with historical evidence relating to disease in the past (rather than history of medicine) will also be published. The journal will also accept significant studies that applied previously developed techniques to new materials, setting the research in the context of current debates on past human and animal health. 

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Editor-in-Chief
Anne Grauer
Dept. of Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago, 1032 W. Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois, 60626, USA Email Anne Grauer
Associate Editors
Megan Brickley
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Margaret Judd
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Chris Knusel
Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Simon Mays
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Megan Perry
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Advisory Board
Megan Brickley
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Jane Buikstra
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Margaret Judd
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Anne Katzenberg
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Chris Knusel
Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Niels Lynnerup
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Simon Mays
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Megan Perry
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Mary Powell
Paleopathology Association, USA
Charlotte Roberts
Durham University, Durham, UK
Ann Stodder
Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA