S0002731620000943jra 2..22 FORUM Finding Archaeological Relevance during a Pandemic and What Comes After Lynn H. Gamble , Cheryl Claassen, Jelmer W. Eerkens, Douglas J. Kennett, Patricia M. Lambert, Matthew J. Liebmann, Natasha Lyons, Barbara J. Mills, Christopher B. Rodning, Tsim D. Schneider, Stephen W. Silliman, Susan M. Alt, Douglas Bamforth, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Anna Marie Prentiss, and Torben C. Rick This article emerged as the human species collectively have been experiencing the worst global pandemic in a century. With a long view of the ecological, economic, social, and political factors that promote the emergence and spread of infectious dis- ease, archaeologists are well positioned to examine the antecedents of the present crisis. In this article, we bring together a variety of perspectives on the issues surrounding the emergence, spread, and effects of disease in both the Americas and Afro-Eurasian contexts. Recognizing that human populations most severely impacted by COVID-19 are typically descendants of marginalized groups, we investigate pre- and postcontact disease vectors among Indigenous and Black communities in North America, outlining the systemic impacts of diseases and the conditions that exacerbate their spread. We look at how material culture both reflects and changes as a result of social transformations brought about by disease, the insights that paleopathology provides about the ancient human condition, and the impacts of ancient globalization on the spread of disease worldwide. By understanding the differential effects of past epidemics on diverse communities and contributing to more equit- able sociopolitical agendas, archaeology can play a key role in helping to pursue a more just future. Keywords: infectious diseases, COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics, inequality, Indigenous and Black communities, paleo- pathology, climate change, marginalization, material culture, history of disease Este articulo surgió a medidas que atravesamos la peor pandemia mundial de un siglo. Con visión a largo plazo de factores ecológicos, económicos, sociales y políticos que promueven el aparecimiento y propagación de enfermedades infecciosas, los Lynn H. Gamble (gamble@anth.ucsb.edu, corresponding author) and Douglas J. Kennett ▪ Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA Cheryl Claassen ▪ Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University, Box 32016, Boone, NC 28608, USA Jelmer W. Eerkens ▪ Department of Anthropology, One Shields Ave, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA Patricia M. Lambert ▪ Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology, 0730 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-0730, USA Matthew J. Liebmann ▪ Department of Anthropology, Harvard University,11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Natasha Lyons ▪ Ursus Heritage Consulting and Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, 11500 Coldstream Creek Road, Coldstream, British Columbia, V1B 1E3, Canada Barbara J. Mills ▪ School of Anthropology, PO Box 210030, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0030, USA Christopher B. Rodning ▪ Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 101 Dinwiddie Hall, 6823 Saint Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA Tsim D. Schneider ▪ Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA Stephen W. Silliman ▪ Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125-3393, USA Susan M. Alt ▪ Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA Douglas Bamforth ▪ Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0233, USA Kelley Hays-Gilpin ▪ Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5200, USA Anna Marie Prentiss ▪ Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA Torben C. Rick ▪ Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA American Antiquity 86(1), 2021, pp. 2–22 Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Archaeology. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. doi:10.1017/aaq.2020.94 2 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3157-0837 mailto:gamble@anth.ucsb.edu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ arqueólogos están en buena posición para examinar los antecedentes de la crisis actual. En este artículo, presentamos una variedad de perspectivas sobre cuestiones de aparecimiento, propagación, y efectos de enfermedades en las Américas y Afro-Eurasia. Reconociendo que las poblaciones humanas más afectadas por COVID-19 suelen ser compuestas de descen- dientes de grupos marginados, investigamos los vectores de enfermedades pre y post contacto entre las comunidades indígenas y negras en Norteamérica, describiendo los impactos sistemáticos de las enfermedades y las condiciones que agravan su pro- pagación. Examinamos como la cultura material refleja y cambia como resultado de las transformaciones sociales provocadas por la enfermedad, los conocimientos que provee la paleopatología sobre la antigua condición humana, y los impactos de la antigua globalización en la propagación de enfermedades en todo el mundo. Al entender los efectos diferentes de epidemias pasadas en diversas comunidades y al contribuir a agendas sociopolíticas más equitativas, la arqueología puede tener un papel importante en formar un futuro más justo. Palabras clave: enfermedades infecciosas, COVID-19, epidemias y pandemias, desigualdad, comunidades Indígenas y Negras, paleopatología, cambio climático, marginación, cultura material, historia de enfermedad I deas for this article emerged as we experience the worst global pandemic in a century. It has affected all aspects of life—political, religious, economic—and social structures have been chal- lenged at multiple levels. The primary goal of this article is to encourage scholars to consider the broader issues that the world confronts today and how we, as archaeologists, contribute to a greater understanding of similar issues that occurred in the past (Trigger 2006:546–548). Archaeologists are well positioned to examine the ecological, eco- nomic, social, and political factors that promote the emergenceandspreadofinfectiousdiseaseoverthe long term. We hope to encourage scholars to use archaeological knowledge byapplying it to broader topics of current significance in the world and to stimulate thinking on significant issues we face today—in this case, disease. The ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic provides the most recent example of the eco- nomic devastation and human suffering caused by the rapid spread of infectious disease, expos- ing long-term weaknesses in infrastructure. Irrational behaviors—such as berating construc- tion workers installing 5G networks because of the belief that they cause the virus, or suggestions by world leaders that the ingestion of bleach could be a cure for the disease—materialize as people cast blame, unable to believe or cope with scientific explanations. This pandemic illustrates how people do not always do the saf- est or most sensible things. Instead, long-term societal fractures are exposed and amplified. Events of the present provide an opportunity to tack backward and forward in time and use today’s lessons to humanize archaeological analysis and contextualize the factors that drive human actions. In this article, we begin with an examination of the historic period and the social issues sur- rounding the emergence, spread, and effects of disease. Inequality is a central concern in these discussions. Although inequalities are known to have developed within long-lived cultural tradi- tions (Flannery and Marcus 2012; Kohler et al. 2017), they are most strongly associated with colonial situations. Human populations most severely impacted by COVID-19 are typically the descendants of those groups (Dávalos et al. 2020). We address epidemic (outbreaks affecting communities or regions vs. pandemics that are international in scale) disease among Indigenous groups in North America and Mexico, outlining systemic impacts of diseases and the conditions that can exacerbate their spread. The importance of mobility as a disease vector and as a strategy of avoidance and even resilience is also investi- gated. We then examine impacts of disease on Black communities as an effect of vulnerability and marginalization. In the second part of the article, we address the interplay of material culture, palaeopath- ology, and demography. We investigate how material culture both reflects and changes as a result of social transformations brought about by disease. In addition, we examine new insights that paleopathology provides about the ancient human condition via traditional, recent, and emerging analytical techniques, with examples of diseases from the Americas both before and after European contact. The final section mirrors many of the issues in the COVID-19 pandemic. Gamble et al.] 3FINDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL RELEVANCE DURING A PANDEMIC AND WHAT COMES AFTER Here, we consider how the spread of infectious disease was particularly rampant among ancient societies, and how this spread was exacerbated by climate-induced crop failures that made popu- lations more susceptible to disease. We conclude with thoughts about how the archaeological study of disasters, such as pandemics, can con- tribute to the growth of an archaeology that both furthers our understanding of the major challenges that humanity faces and supports the creation of equitable and scientifically supported agendas and solutions. This article was written by the members of the American Antiquity Editorial Board during and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through data, research, and analytical techniques, the texts that follow bring together different per- spectives on the current situation and the way these relate to human actions of the past. The arti- cle provides a multivocal commentary that has the goal of providing insights that are useful in new research on human-disease interactions. Epidemic Disease among Indigenous Peoples, Black Communities, and Other Underrepresented Groups Best-selling books such as Jared Diamond’s Pu- litzer Prize–winning Guns, Germs, and Steel (1999) and Charles Mann’s 1491 (2005) draw attention to the devastation of Indigenous com- munities due to epidemic diseases introduced through European colonialism. These works helped to popularize the notion that Indigenous depopulation was a natural outcome, due to par- ticularities of geography and genes. Although biology and geography may have laid the foun- dations for what followed, this naturalization separates the actions of people from the spread of disease, shifting blame from European settler onto microbes and genetics. Sustained archaeological research from across North America over the past 30 years demon- strates that the spread of epidemic diseases in the wake of European colonialism was complex (Hull 2009:220–282). Diseases did not spread independently from the actions of colonial agents, as hypothesized by a previous generation of scholars (e.g. Dobyns 1983). Advances in dat- ing and spatial analytics show that epidemic diseases lagged behind initial contacts in many areas, rather than advancing in a wave ahead of European traders, settlers, and missionaries in the sixteenth century. In the U.S. Southwest, for example, the earliest evidence for postcontact Pueblo depopulation occurs nearly a century after first encounters with Europeans and Afri- cans, and more than three decades after the estab- lishment of the first colonial settlements in the region (Liebmann et al. 2016). Similarly, disease appears to have followed on the heels of colonial incursions in the U.S. Southeast, Northeast, Great Lakes region, and Far West, as well as on the Canadian Shield and the Northwest Coast (Jones 2014). In other areas, there is strong archae- ological evidence of depopulation consistent with epidemic disease after initial contact but before sustained settlement (for example, progressive reduction in settlement and house sizes; Collison 2013; Kvamme and Ahler 2007). The archaeology of colonial North America suggests that Indigenous depopulation due to infectious disease is not a matter of simple expos- ure to new germs, as evidenced by the lag between first encounters and Indigenous depopu- lation events. Nor are infectious diseases autono- mous and wholly “natural” processes. Instead, as Dale Hutchinson (2016) suggests, infectious dis- eases are also social processes, the consequences of which are directly affected by human deci- sions and dispositions. Archaeology demon- strates that Indigenous peoples died in vast numbers after 1492 not only because Europeans introduced new diseases but because Europeans introduced social structures that promoted new forms of poverty, famine, malnutrition, violence, and dislocation. These haunts of colonialism, termed “structural violence” by medical anthro- pologist Paul Farmer (2004), worked in concert with disease to render Indigenous communities particularly vulnerable. Instead of causing injury through direct physical actions, structural vio- lence refers to the economic, legal, political, and religious forces that place individuals and populations in harm’s way. Historical narratives inform how we think about Indigenous health and inequality today. The horrors of seventeenth-century “virgin soil” epidemics may appear to have been a unique occurrence—an accident of history (and 4 [Vol. 86, No. 1, 2021AMERICAN ANTIQUITY biology) that could never occur again. But this position ignores the fact that Indigenous commu- nities have suffered disproportionately negative health outcomes for more than 500 years. For Indigenous peoples living under colonial regimes, health disparities are a persistent fact of life. Whether we are talking about smallpox, measles, and typhus in the seventeenth and eigh- teenth centuries; tuberculosis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; or COVID-19 in the twenty-first. Today, Indigenous communities suffer deaths due to diabetes at more than three times and cardiovascular disease at twice the rate of the rest of the nation, and infant mortality rates double that of the rest of the U.S. population (Indian Health Service 2020). In the 1918 influ- enza pandemic, and again during the 2009 out- break of swine flu (also known as H1N1), the death rate for Indigenous groups that contracted these diseases was four times that of all other racial and ethnic groups combined (National Library of Medicine 2020). Tragically and unsurprisingly, Indigenous communities have been hit particularly hard by the novel coronavirus in 2020. In New Mexico, where Native Americans comprise 11% of the state’s population, Indigenous persons accounted for 57% of the state’s 4,863 COVID-19 cases as of May 10, 2020 (New Mexico Department of Health 2020). The Pueblos of Zia and San Felipe reported some of the highest community infec- tion rates in the country, at 3.4% and 2.36%, respectively. Those rates exceeded that of New York City at the height of the spring 2020 pandemic (Chavez 2020). Once again, this is not a “natural” or inevitable situation. These sta- tistics should cause us to reflect on how Indigen- ous peoples came to be more susceptible to COVID-19 than settler colonial populations. The novel coronavirus pandemic of 2020 shines new light on a terrible truth: the horrors of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century epidemics among Indigenous peoples were not a unique, one-time accident of history. It behooves us to think about how archaeologists can dismantle the enduring myths that continue to be used to rationalize health inequities in North America today as well as how we can contribute to pro- cesses, resources, and agendas that challenge this system. The way we think about the earliest days of European settlement in the Americas structures the way we think about Indigenous health disparities today. Mobility When we consider the impact of epidemic dis- eases, we also need to contemplate mobility, or the lack of it. In the spring and summer of 2020, local and national news focused on the growing malaise of citizens who were feeling not just increasingly frustrated about the uncer- tainty and tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic but also bottled up at home. With the spreading influence of armed protesters seeking to “liber- ate” their home states from what they interpreted to be oppressive restrictions on their mobility and ability to work during a global pandemic—along the way, grotesquely evoking the name and brav- ery of Rosa Parks to characterize their “plight” and resistance (Scott 2020)—some Californians assembled for protests at the capitol in Sacra- mento. Others hit the beach. Warm weather beckoned many outdoors in numbers, even if by doing so they not only defied the logic behind “flatten the curve,” “social distancing,” and “herd immunity,” but also outright ignored state restrictions against gathering in public spaces. According to one analysis of cell-phone data (aggregated from an average of 18 million cell phones a day), differences emerged between those who dwell within densely populated metro- politan areas and “free-roaming” residents of many rural counties. A key social insight in this research is this: “State orders don’t necessarily dictate behavior” (Schaul et al. 2020). Mobility is at the core of human existence, and it is often infused with power and agency as seen in archaeological examples from colonial North America. Beginning in the fifteenth cen- tury when European colonists first set foot on Indigenous homelands, Native peoples experi- enced spiritual and physical harm, theft of land, threats to their cultures and identities, and deeply wounding impacts to their lives and livelihoods from invasive plant taxa, grazing livestock, and the spread of introduced diseases. Indigenous communities continue to negotiate the aftermath of these earlier phases of upheaval as well as the ongoing effects of sustained colonialism (Light- foot and Gonzalez 2018). In the face of the Gamble et al.] 5FINDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL RELEVANCE DURING A PANDEMIC AND WHAT COMES AFTER severely reduced situations of Indigenous com- munities, it is understandable why anthro- pologists working to “salvage” unadulterated cultural knowledge from “vanishing” tribes in the early 1900s viewed missions and religious proselytizers as prime suspects in the story of loss visited far too often on Native peoples of North America. The adobe, stone, and thatched walls of missions came to define sturdy physical and intellectual barriers between modernity and a space where prehistory ends. From mission “fortresses” described by borderland historian Herbert Bolton (1917:51) to the prison-missions narrated in the present (Madley 2019), popularized scholarly accounts of colonialism falsely depicted the immobility of Indigenous peoples even when living Indigen- ous peoples—and mounting archaeological evidence—suggest otherwise. Crossing ancestral lands and waters, Michelle Lelièvre and Maureen Marshall (2015) note, the mobility of Mi’kmaq people represented important political acts of sovereignty and emplacement that distressed Catholic missionaries operating in Nova Scotia. Mobilization to mesa-top refuges ensured access to spaces of protection and spiritual strength for Indigenous peoples throughout the Southwest following the 1680 Pueblo Revolt (e.g., Aguilar and Preucel 2019). Not to be caught flat-footed, Indigenous hunter-gather-fisher-managers of California frequently sequenced their visits to colonial missions—and their trips away from them—to coincide with seasonal harvests of food resources and to carry out mortuary rites, dances, and other social practices beyond the walls (Schneider 2015). These and other examples from archaeology repeatedly show that mobility may be an act of agency in opposition to state control. Although symbolic of the power of the state to control and confine, walls do not necessarily dictate behavior. Stability of settlement in areas more remote from colonizing populations, particularly in the vast majority of the continent where no missions were ever established, underscores this. Euro- American settlement came late to the heart of North America and, even faced with disease- driven depopulation, maize-farming communities on the Great Plains retained their traditional settlements, lifeways, and territories until late in the colonial era. These farmers built their own walls and resisted the changes around them from within (Bamforth 2021). People’s use of mobility as a political state- ment today is controversial but also acknowledged for just that—a conscious and empowering action against perceived state control. When con- sidering archaeological examples of Indigenous mobility, why are we so slow to apply a lens of power and autonomy? In these instances, sovereignty and agency were even more central and consequential, and yet tropes of Indigenous loss and inaction endure. To be sure, these two contexts are different in their root causes and rea- sons for mobility. Recent efforts at mobility in the face of state-dictated restrictions, however, draw heavily on ideas of liberty and freedom from state oppressors. This sits in stark contrast to the archaeological interpretations of Indigen- ous mobility that largely downplay its signifi- cance, power dynamics, and sovereign political implications. Examples from Mexico We see many parallels among Indigenous peo- ples of Mexico, further demonstrating that dis- ease does not stop at international borders. It is especially instructive to look at the subtler rami- fications of the great death toll from numerous epidemics that hit central Mexico in the sixteenth century after contact between men from Europe with both women and men of Mexico living in urban settings. The resulting massive death toll brought about significant changes and begs the question of how many other times in human history similar changes—in regional settlement patterns, rituals, foodways, age profiles, econom- ics, and political organization—have resulted from epidemics. No fewer than four diseases—smallpox, mea- sles, typhoid, and mumps—hit central Mexico within a 70-year period, killing 90% of the popu- lation (Prem 1992). The first epidemic occurred in the middle of the first entrada (1520–1521), and the second one a decade later. Both epi- demics exacted their highest toll among young Indigenous people. Some Spaniards died as well. This high death rate among Indigenous peoples of New Spain (central Mexico in particular) and low death rate among Spaniards 6 [Vol. 86, No. 1, 2021AMERICAN ANTIQUITY led to a number of assertions about the differ- ences between the Native’s body and the Span- iard’s body. Why was the Native body so fragile and the Spaniard so hardy? The Span- iards’ explanation was that the climate of central Mexico and the Caribbean (stars overhead, lati- tude, humidity) feminized a man, as did the diet of the Indigenous peoples (root crops, insects, rodents, algae, and maize), which upset the humors. The European/Christian/civilized foods of wheat, wine/spirits, and mammalian meat made the ideal (masculine) body. The absence of these in New Spain eventually led to the rapid import of European foods, forever altering native foodways and causing environmental degradation from domesticated animals (Earle 2012) and land grabs for acreage within only a few decades. Like COVID-19, the epidemics of the six- teenth century affected and stressed one segment of the population much more than it did others: it was members of the working class and the native population who died in astounding numbers (Earle 2012; Prem 1992). These deaths impacted not only rituals through the loss of practitioners and their esoteric knowledge, but also crafts through the loss of skilled craftspeople. The high quantity of deaths—19 million to 21 million in 70 years in New Spain—led to depopulation of Native settlements and, consequently, the loss of elements of landscape and place that under- pinned ritual and identity. Spaniards and the Spanish language filled the vacant quarters. In some cases, the Native populations that survived remained in these places and repurposed churches while developing new understandings of ruins and their place in the cosmos. Mobility was not an option for Catholic Natives, given that they were forced to work on missions, for government officials, or for Span- iards in mines and ranches; attend daily prayers and lessons; and report to their priest each week- end in larger towns. In writing about Natives in Jalisco, Gerónimo de Mendieta stated that “unlike other people in the world, they did not flee into the countryside when plague struck, instead staying together in their altepetl [towns] —only within the altepetl would they be assured a decent burial [Catholic procedure] and not die like animals [pagan ancestors]” (1971:519). Hospitals had been built in nearly every doctrina town by the 1580s, so for the later epidemics, these hospitals—as well as the desire for a proper burial and access to provisions—attracted rural dwellers to the doctrina and visita towns, increas- ing the density of population. Eventually depopulation changed the ability of Native peoples to pay tribute to their leaders, altering the quantities of goods, the variety of goods, and the geography and nodes of the trib- ute network. Similar to our current situation, these economic losses worked their way up the social hierarchy. The lack of goods from their subjects meant that the Native elite governors were unable to meet Spanish tribute (goods and labor) demands, costing them their favored place in the Spanish governmental hierarchy and the Native peoples their self-governance. Soon, the drastic decline in Indigenous labor available to work on ranchos and mines led to the rapid importation of new laborers—Africans, creating yet another culture contact situation. Inequality, Vulnerability, and Effects of Marginalization on African Americans Compared to the general U.S. population, the effects of COVID-19 have been much greater not only among Indigenous communities but also among Black groups. There are many rea- sons why. Historically and structurally, Black communities in the United States have had com- paratively less access to health care, nutrition and fresh foods (given the “food deserts” in some urban areas), safe housing and neighborhoods that enable healthy lifestyles, and educational and employment opportunities that foster both flexibility and choice in career paths and living arrangements. These issues parallel those of Indi- genous, Latinx, and Asian groups in the United States. The lives of people of color are more commonly affected by violent crime, aggressive and sometimes violent policing, and associated stresses and stressors. Many Black Americans and members of other marginalized groups hold jobs that cannot be done from home and/or performed while consistently main- taining social distancing. Many also have lost jobs because of the economic fallout of the co- ronavirus crisis, and—in part because of other factors noted here—they sometimes cannot find other jobs easily, thereby compounding other Gamble et al.] 7FINDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL RELEVANCE DURING A PANDEMIC AND WHAT COMES AFTER sources of vulnerability and susceptibility to disease and poverty. This constellation of issues stems from the other multigenerational pandemic it represents: long-standing and virulent anti-Black racism and the extensive systemic and practical effects of white privilege and supremacy. Our duty as archaeologists is to make sure that those histories are not forgotten. They are precursors to the pres- ent, and these narratives and structural realities remind us that these conditions are not new nor are they “over.” They have been present since Africans were first brought to the Americas (see New York Times 2019) enduring the horrors of the Middle Passage and perhaps never recov- ering entirely from the anguish and violence of those experiences. Despite being far from any place familiar or friendly, enslaved African persons then carved out lives in new settings, maintaining some aspects of traditional African cultural practices while adapting to American environments and landscapes of colonialism and imperialism. Archaeology sheds light on the resilience, resistance, strategy, and even opportunity pursued by African Americans in the plantation landscapes of the American South, the Chesapeake, and the Caribbean (e.g., Barnes and Steen 2012; Brown 2004; Fer- guson 1992; McDavid 1997; Orser 1990, 1994; Samford 2007; Singleton 1985, 1995, 2010); in urban and rural settings in the American North- east (e.g., Delle 2019; Matthews and McGovern 2015); and at sites associated with the Under- ground Railroad in the United States (e.g., Graff 2019; LaRoche 2014) and in Latin America (Balanzátegui 2018; Costa 2016; Weik 2004). Not surprisingly, bioarchaeological studies of the health of both enslaved and eman- cipated Africans and African Americans show notable bodily stresses from inadequate nutrition, poor dental health, lifelong manual labor, and infection (e.g., Blakey 2001; de la Cova 2011, 2014; Lambert 2006; Watkins 2012). Emancipation of slaves in North America brought an end to the political imprimatur of enslavement and extraction of slave labor and lives, and archaeologists have been able to high- light the struggles and triumphs of Black Amer- icans in the periods that followed, from Texas (Franklin and Lee 2019, 2020; Wilkie 2019) to Massachusetts (Battle-Baptiste 2011; Lee 2019; Paynter and Battle-Baptiste 2019). However, violence and disenfranchisement of the rights of citizenship in the United States—and obsta- cles to African Americans having access to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”—per- sisted throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s (Barnes 2011; Botwick 2018). In ways that res- onate with the current COVID-19 context, these disparities can be tracked in the realms of health and healthcare for Black populations and framed by gender and racial inequalities (e.g., Dunna- vant 2017; Franklin and Wilson 2020). Simi- larly, legacies of racism have contributed to structural violence and persistence of poverty and oppression of African Americans in the United States since then (e.g., Fracchia 2019; Gray 2020). Clear examples highlighted by archaeologists include the perpetual cycles of violence inflicted on Black communities in the early twentieth century, such as the Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma in 1921 (Odewale and Slocum 2020) and the Rosewood Massacre in Florida in 1923 (González-Tennant 2018). Archaeology can reveal diverse forms of oppression and marginalization in past societies as well as ideologies that have promoted the interests of some groups while extracting labor and resources (and sometimes lives) from others. The archaeology of enslavement reveals patterns of architecture and settlement layout that materi- alized and naturalized power relations, and that enforced systems of discipline and surveillance, alongside evidence of many forms of resilience and resistance. The archaeology of African American life during the past 400 years illus- trates important patterns and processes that shape race relations in the United States currently and that contribute to the heightened vulnerabil- ity of Black Americans to the present pandemic. Archaeology can amplify this knowledge by raising up the voices of Black archaeologists and communities whose heritages are involved (e.g., Epperson 2004; Franklin 1997), following the #BlackLivesMatter movement and its inter- sections with archaeology (see also Rosenzweig 2020). A virtual panel on June 26, 2020, “Archaeology in the Time of Black Lives Mat- ter,” drove home this point with six panelists (Justin Dunnavant, Ayana Flewellen, Maria 8 [Vol. 86, No. 1, 2021AMERICAN ANTIQUITY Franklin, Alexandra Jones, Alicia Odewale, and Tsonie Wolde-Michael) and more than 1,600 online attendees. The current convergence of the twin pandemics of racism and COVID-19 demands that American archaeologists engage with this political moment. More than just researchers or even allies, archaeologists can serve as accomplices, shining light into the shad- ows previously cast by toppling monuments of colonizers and slavers. Epidemics, Pandemics, and Material Culture Archaeologists are well positioned to assess changes in material culture following widespread disease. Material culture figures prominently in present-day pandemic practices—such as the innovation and adoption of different mask styles, many of which are actively used to express mem- bership in different social groups and shared ideologies. Perhaps even more than the hat styles in the classic article by Martin Wobst (1977), many masks convey emblematic styles (sensu Wiessner 1983) that explicitly reference political and ideological membership in social move- ments and other groups—such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) or Make America Great Again (MAGA)—as does even the choice of whether or not to wear a mask at all. The rapidity with which specific manufacturing technologies (folded, seamed, draped, or tubular), icons, and colors have been innovated and adopted in mask making and wearing provides an empirical record for looking at technological and semiotic networks. It also shows how style— both emblematic and assertive—goes beyond representation to how our interaction with these objects creates and maintains new relationships, including membership in new social movements. Ethnohistorically documented epidemics and pandemics also provide contexts for understand- ing their effects on material culture, such as the transmission of knowledge about how to make specific kinds of items, along with their distribu- tion, uses, and consumption. Diseases can di- rectly affect production by reducing the number of producers, creating population bottlenecks, and causing the loss of skilled knowledge bearers. For example, in 1876, a smallpox epi- demic was introduced to Zuni by Mormon settlers of nearby Savoia (Ramah) that lasted until 1879. One observer estimated about a 50% loss in Zuni population (Baxter 1882). In their analysis of three consecutive museum collections made at Zuni by Smithsonian Institu- tion anthropologists from 1879 to the mid-1880s, Margaret Hardin and Barbara Mills (2000) noted a strong pattern of change in vessel size and sym- metry, with smaller bowls and more asymmet- rical patterns predominating in the last collecting expedition of 1884–1885. They sug- gested that this was the result of the death of older, more skilled potters, who would have been the producers of larger vessels with more complex, symmetrical designs. Similarly, Sahn- ish (Arikara) pottery production shifted after smallpox epidemics of the late 1700s to a thicker, less carefully decorated pottery that is attributed to population loss, increasing warfare, and greater labor demands on women (Krause and Hollenback 2016). In another Plains case, Paw- nee potters stopped making cooking pots by the mid-1700s, at least in part because of eco- nomic decisions to put more labor in bison hide production (Beck 2020). In all three of these examples, pottery production did not disappear. In fact, pots remained important objects that per- sisted—even in the face of massive Euro- American incursions—and promoted identities of resilience in Indigenous groups (see also Hol- lenback 2012). Potters had agency, and their decisions on what to make themselves and what to acquire by trade were a means of ensur- ing cultural persistence. Epidemics and pandemics can inspire reli- gious innovations and changes in Indigenous practices to control diseases. For example, new religious movements have arisen out of “crises responses” to European-introduced diseases, such as the Chinigchinish religion in eighteenth- century California (Preston 2002:76). In another example, John Creese (2017) cites the increased use of a particular style of effigy-smoking pipes by the Wendat following epidemics of European diseases during the 1630s and 1640s. These objects were used in rituals of healing that involved smoking, an activity that by definition involves breath in all its layered meanings. Changes in mortuary ritual have also been con- nected with seventeenth-century epidemics in Gamble et al.] 9FINDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL RELEVANCE DURING A PANDEMIC AND WHAT COMES AFTER southern New England, where Native Americans buried their kin with European cloth to create a “protective” layer to the body (Bragdon 2017:122). Such changes are not simply accul- turative acts. They are the selective use of new kinds of objects by Indigenous groups because of those objects’ perceived abilities to affect what were dramatic transformations in their respective worlds. Research worldwide demonstrates that mate- rial culture consumption may be used as an inde- pendent proxy for assessing the impact of pandemics on population loss, but with caveats. In eastern England, archaeological contexts dat- ing before and after the Black Death showed a 45% decrease in the amount of pottery deposited (Lewis 2016). By contrast, Lee Mordechai and colleagues (2019) use material culture to argue against “maximalist” interpretations of mortality figures (cf. Meier 2016) during the Justinianic Plague of AD 541–544 in the Mediterranean region. Drawing on multiple datasets, they showed that the expected drop in frequencies of coins, inscriptions, papyri, and other well-dated materials did not occur during or after the pandemic. Their conclusions are supported by well-resolved palynological records showing no evidence for “rewilding,” or decreases in agricul- tural production, as they did following the Black Death. The use of multiple environmental and material culture datasets to challenge narratives of disease has also been employed in North America to demonstrate the resistance and resil- ience of Indigenous populations rather than their disappearance (Holland-Lulewicz et al. 2020). Paleopathology and Insights into Ancient Human Disease Paleopathology can provide crucial insights into the history of human health and disease (Buikstra 2010). Much of this research has focused on chronic diseases such as degenerative joint dis- ease, malnutrition, and dental caries—conditions that leave macroscopic markers on bones and teeth. By comparison, development of knowl- edge about the history of most infectious diseases has been slower. Historical texts, cases of pre- served pathological soft tissue (e.g., mummies), and macroscopic parasites recovered from archaeological context have provided some key insights (Camacho and Reinhard 2020; Nerlich et al. 2006; Reid et al. 1999), but unfortunately, such materials are rare, or they are not systemat- ically sought from the archaeological record. Advances in biomolecular analytical tech- niques have opened new windows into the study of ancient disease, especially those of infectious origin (Nerlich 2018). Many of these techniques were developed within medical, forensic, and other STEM sciences, but they require unique modifications when applied to ancient materials. Together, they provide archaeology with new and independent datasets to test hypotheses about the long-term evolution of human disease and human–pathogen interactions. Within this developing field, two main approaches are emerging. The first, and probably most direct, is the detection of pathogens them- selves, typically by way of the unique biomolecu- lar signatures they leave behind. Paleogenomics, or the study of genetic material from ancient pathogens, has been the most fruitful of these approaches. Ancient DNA (aDNA) unique to pathogens associated with tuberculosis (Mycobac- terium tuberculosis; Salo et al. 1994), syphilis (Treponema pallidum; Schuenemann et al. 2018), Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi; Auf- derheide et al. 2004), and meningococcal disease (Neisseria meningitidis; Eerkens et al. 2018), among others, has been recovered from archaeo- logical human and animal remains in the Americas. Although bones and teeth are most commonly studied, the recent recognition that aDNA and other biomolecules are well-preserved in dental calculus has opened large areas of the world to this type of analysis (Warinner, Rodri- gues, et al. 2014). At the same time, there is still a sizable gap between the screening of archaeological materi- als for aDNA of pathogenic microbiota and the ultimate goal of making inferences about ancient epidemics and pandemics from such data. The fragile nature of the double-helix DNA molecule makes recovery of aDNA challenging (Pääbo et al. 2004; Willerslev and Cooper 2005), and ancient RNA–based viruses even more so (Smith and Gilbert 2019). Because aDNA fragments must be compared to reference databases— which, in most cases, only include known modern 10 [Vol. 86, No. 1, 2021AMERICAN ANTIQUITY pathogens—we are potentially overlooking a wide range of unknown and more ancient pathogens and diseases. That said, there are some recent successes, such as the extraction of ancient influenza from preserved human tissues dating to the early 1900s (Kobasa et al. 2004). Beyond aDNA recovery, many microorganisms are opportunistic pathogens within the human body, causing no disease in the face of an active immune system but turning pathogenic in a wea- kened state (e.g., tubercular bacilli). As is evident in the case of COVID-19, humans can be asymp- tomatic carriers of a pathogen, so simply detect- ing the aDNA or RNA of a pathogen does not indicate ancient disease, at least for the individ- ual from whom it was obtained. Paleoproteomics is a second emerging biomo- lecular approach, although it is not as developed as paleogenomics. Once again, dental calculus is proving to be a rich source for a wide range of ancient proteins (e.g., Hendy et al. 2018; Warin- ner, Hendy, et al. 2014). Proteins have several advantages relative to aDNA in paleopathology research. First, they are inherently more stable than DNA—especially those that bind to mineral surfaces in bone, dental tissues, or calculus— which makes their preservation in ancient samples more likely. Tammy Buonasera and col- leagues (2020) recently showed that amelogenin protein signatures in human teeth show negli- gible degradation over a 2,000-year window, whereas aDNA from the same set of individuals shows an order-of-magnitude decrease in signal. Second, proteins are produced by both pathogen (antigen) and host (antibody), potentially provid- ing greater insight into the interaction between the two. For example, antigen proteins associated with sarcoma cancer have been identified in archaeological bone (Bona et al. 2014), whereas Jessica Hendy and colleagues (2016) recovered a wide range of human antibody proteins from mummified lung tissue samples. Although they can show an immune response to an infection, compared to DNA, proteins are often less indica- tive of a particular disease. Reconstructing ancient outbreaks and epi- demics from the archaeological record using paleogenomic and paleoproteomic approaches is still quite difficult, especially in the absence of written records. Of course, there are a number of ethical and logistical issues to address with descendant communities prior to commencing such studies, particularly when analyses are par- tially destructive (Bardill et al. 2018; Fox 2020). These issues aside, methodologically, one of the major challenges is working with partial or incomplete data—not only in terms of biomo- lecular preservation and incomplete knowledge about possible diseases but also in terms of archaeological sampling. Most paleopathology successes are at the scale of a single or small number of individuals, and they employ multi- pronged analytical strategies. Using multiple sources of partial data, such as fragments of aDNA, degraded proteins, nonspecific lesions on bone, and skeletal elements that happen to survive, we are able to make strong cases for par- ticular diagnoses. By contrast, documenting ancient outbreaks and epidemics requires verifi- cation of synchronous infection across many individuals and/or sites. Another key concern here is knowing the rate of false positives and false negatives, similar to the osteological paradox that challenges interpretations of osteo- logical data (Wood et al. 1992). This is especially difficult, for example, when a diagnosis is based on osteological lesions in one skeleton, and aDNA in the dental calculus of another, whereas a third individual has neither osteological lesions nor calculus. Without estimates for false positive —and especially for false negative—it is difficult to estimate the rate at which a disease affected members of a population. Rather than attempting to mimic modern epi- demiology’s focus on tracking epidemics by learning a little bit (disease vs. no disease) about a lot of contemporaneous people, the real strength of our discipline lies in learning a lot about a select few individuals and then extending those results to the long timescales we are privy to. In this respect, documenting the origins of diseases as well as providing a rich social- material context for their subsequent develop- ment and geographic spread over centuries or millennia are areas where archaeology can make significant contributions, whereas estab- lishing morbidity rates within populations or R0 for ancient pathogens is not currently feasible. Gamble et al.] 11FINDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL RELEVANCE DURING A PANDEMIC AND WHAT COMES AFTER Infectious Disease in the Americas before and after European Contact As bioarchaeologists have long noted, the Amer- icas were not a disease-free environment before the arrival of Europeans (Larsen 1994; Martin and Goodman 2002; Merbs 1992), and, as else- where in the world, infectious disease likely shaped the biocultural landscape of the Americas in ways that have yet to be fully understood. From the beginning, ancient Americans would have carried microorganisms such as H. pylori and other potentially pathogenic bacteria (e.g., streptococci and staphylococci) and fungi (e.g., Candida albicans) with them across the Bering Land Bridge or other routes of entry (Araújo et al. 2013; Darling and Donoghue 2014; Merbs 1992). Microbes such as these are com- mon components of human microbiomes (e.g., oral, gut, skin), communities of microorganisms that play a crucial role in human health and dis- ease (Lloyd-Price et al. 2016). Although we know strikingly little at present about the micro- biota of ancient Americans, there is great poten- tial for their elucidation through the study of aDNA in human coprolites and tooth calculus (e.g.,Warinner et al. 2015). Host-specific para- sites such as hookworm, pinworm, and whip- worm would also have traveled with humans to the Americas, although the timing of their arrival and routes of travel have yet to be clarified (Araújo et al. 2013). Early migrants may also have introduced anthrax to the Americas, trans- porting the bacteria on animal hides as early as 13,000 BP and possibly contributing to Pleisto- cene extinctions—although, again, more work is needed to evaluate prehistoric human impacts on pathogen–host ecology in North America (Nickell and Moran 2017). Once in the Americas, human populations would have been exposed to a range of new pathogens through their interactions with Ameri- can flora and fauna (Darling and Donoghue 2014), including Lyme disease (Borrelia burg- dorferi; Margos et al. 2008), Carrion’s disease (Bartonella bacilliformis; Allison et al. 1974), salmonellosis (Salmonella sp.; Sawicki et al. 1976), and tularemia (Francisella tularensis; Farlow et al. 2005). Protozoan diseases such as giardiasis (Giardia sp.; Nickell and Moran 2017), leishmaniasis (Leishmania sp.; Costa et al. 2009), toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma gondii; Lehmann et al. 2006), and Chagas disease (Tri- panosoma cruzi; Aufderheide et al. 2004) were also present in some environments. Other endemic pathogens, such as the spores of Cocci- dioides immitis and Blastomyces dermatitidis (Merbs 1992; Ortner and Putschar 1981), may have lain dormant in the ground until people began to disturb contaminated soils with the tran- sition to agriculture. Many of these diseases would have been localized to areas where patho- gens and insect vectors lived, although long- distance trade could have exposed traders from distant locales to “new” pathogens as they passed through affected areas (Merbs 1992). It is likely that other pathogens, such as the widely distrib- uted hantaviruses, would have periodically affected individuals and households through infestations by reservoir species (rodents), as occurred in 1993 in the Four Corners region (Jonsson et al. 2010)—inexplicable events that could well have stimulated cultural responses such as the burning of affected houses and accusations of witchcraft. Domestic animals, a common source of disease in Afro-Eurasian contexts (Wolfe et al. 2007), were rare in the Americas, and they do not appear to have served as major reservoirs for pathogens affecting humans there. That said, turkeys and macaws may have exposed peo- ple in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica to avian-borne diseases such as psittacosis (Chla- mydia psittaci; e.g., Dickx and Vanrompay 2011), and their feces (cf. Lipe et al. 2016) could have contaminated water or food supplies with pathogenic bacteria. Human feces would also have created health risks (e.g., E. coli and Salmonella infections) when people began to settle into permanent villages, leading to diar- rheal disease and possibly spreading other infec- tions as a result of poor sanitation (as still occurs in many world regions today). Diseases transmitted directly or indirectly from human to human (e.g., hepatitis B, see Roman et al. 2014; Herpes simplex, see Wertheim et al. 2014) were also present in pre- contact North American populations (Merbs 1992; Nickell and Moran 2017), although their 12 [Vol. 86, No. 1, 2021AMERICAN ANTIQUITY presence has often been difficult to establish archaeologically because few affect the bones. Treponematosis (Treponema pallidum subsp.?) and tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) are two infectious diseases that do have distinct osteological signatures and widespread distribu- tion, and both are well documented in the Amer- icas before contact (Baker et al. 2020; Harper et al. 2011; Powell and Cook 2005; Roberts and Buikstra 2003). These are chronic bacterial infections that could be maintained in smaller populations through carriers and affected indi- viduals (Ortner and Putschar 1981; Powell and Cook 2005), emerging as major (or at least more visible) diseases when people began to set- tle into permanent villages with the transition to agriculture (Larsen 1994; Powell and Cook 2005; Roberts and Buikstra 2003). Treponemato- sis affected Indigenous Americans for thousands of years before European contact (Baker et al. 2020; Powell and Cook 2005), whereas tubercu- losis may have been introduced only a couple of millennia before the arrival of Europeans, per- haps through infected sea mammals hunted on the west coast of South America (Bos et al. 2014). The study of these chronic infections has recently been energized by advances in aDNA research (e.g., Bos et al. 2014; Schuene- mann et al. 2018), and the potential for further elucidation of the origins and phylogenetic history of these and other infectious diseases through such studies is enormous—if researchers involved in the study of human skeletal remains collaborate with and seek permissions from de- scendant communities to obtain tissue samples from affected individuals. There is also much still to be learned about environmental influences on the skeletal manifestations of these chronic infections through careful analysis of lesion char- acteristics and distribution in the body (cf. Baker et al. 2020; Lambert 2017). With the arrival of Europeans and enslaved Africans came the collective Afro-Eurasian dis- ease load (e.g., chickenpox, cholera, diphtheria, influenza, malaria, measles, mumps, plague, smallpox, typhoid, and yellow fever; Bryant et al. 2007; Larsen 1994; Wolfe et al. 2007), including diseases that had made the jump from domestic animals or wild nonhuman primates, as well as those with a long history of human- to-human transmission (Wolfe et al. 1998, 2007). New and more virulent strains of trepo- nemal disease (venereal syphilis; Baker et al. 2020) and tuberculosis also appear to have arrived with Europeans, the latter likely swamp- ing out ancient American strains of tuberculosis in a complex exchange of genetic material that is only beginning to be understood (Bos et al. 2014; Pepperell et al. 2011; see also Kay et al. 2015). One often overlooked (but see Merbs 1992) aspect of European contact that warrants further consideration is the arrival of Norse explorers on the east coast of Canada around AD 1000, long before Columbus. Their settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland was populated by some 70–90 people (mostly male), and it served as a hub for coastal explor- ation and resource acquisition for the Greenland colony for several years at least. According to Icelandic sagas, summer and fall collecting of timber and grapes took place to the south, likely in New Brunswick, where the Norse foraged in the same coastal estuary as large groups of abori- ginal people (Wallace 2003). It is not inconceiv- able that disease exchange occurred in contexts such as this that brought Norse explorers into close contact with Indigenous Americans. Con- sider, for example, emerging evidence that strains of smallpox were circulating widely in populations of northern Europe during the Viking Age (Mühlemann et al. 2020). Ecology of Infectious Disease, Agriculture, and Demographic Transitions Major concerns exist today regarding the emer- gence and spread of infectious diseases asso- ciated with the expansion of global food production necessary to feed a projected 11 bil- lion people by 2100 (Rohr et al. 2019). The archaeology of complex systems provides a framework (sensu Kohler 2012) for considering the causes and consequences of such interactive processes in the spread of infectious disease. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how the exogenous destabilizing effects of a rapidly spreading infectious disease can impact economic well-being, and it must be studied as interacting processes occurring on different spatiotemporal scales (Ceddia et al. 2013). Gamble et al.] 13FINDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL RELEVANCE DURING A PANDEMIC AND WHAT COMES AFTER Plant and animal domestication during the last 10,000 years has been one of the most conse- quential cultural and environmental transitions in the history of our species (Smith and Zeder 2013), and it has fundamentally changed the eco- logical and population dynamics involved with the transmission and spread of infectious dis- eases. The spread of agricultural and pastoral societies throughout Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas (e.g., Bellwood 2005; Bramanti et al. 2009; Skoglund et al. 2013) put humans in closer contact with other animal species carrying a va- riety of zoonotic diseases—just as what occurred with bats in China, which are thought to be the primary source of COVID-19. Pastoral popula- tions spreading through Eurasia and Africa were in close association with domesticated ani- mals that were the primary vectors for a range of diseases (e.g., measles from cattle, influenza from pigs and ducks [Diamond 2002]). Model- ing approaches have demonstrated that even small populations consistent with early farming communities were large enough to sustain the circulation of some viruses, such as Brucella melitensis in goat populations in the Near East (Fournié et al. 2017). Infectious diseases resulting from the transition to agriculture and pastoralism in Eurasia ultimately devastated Indigenous populations in the Pacific Islands, Australia, and the Americas as Eurasian explorers and colonists came into contact with populations lacking immunity. High mortality rates in the Americas caused by introduced diseases contributed to the loss of traditional knowledge and lifeways as Europeans expanded across the continents. A major demographic shift accompanied the transition from foraging to farming that had sig- nificant implications for the spread of infectious diseases (Bocquet-Appel 2011). Increases in population are thought to be related to decreases in mobility and reductions in birth interval. Population aggregation and urbanization in the last 5,000 years has led to supply chain issues required to feed growing populations (Zeder 1991) and resulted in the contamination of drink- ing water due to animal and human waste. Larger populations are also required to sustain many infectious diseases (e.g., 300,000 people for measles [Armelagos and Harper 2005]), and long-distance trade and interaction would have served to disperse infectious diseases more broadly. Wealth and health disparities also became much more visible in early urbanized societies. Overall, the Neolithic demographic transition was associated with increases in both morbidity and mortality. Traditional bioarchaeo- logical indicators of disease fail to capture evi- dence for large-scale epidemics of acute infections because people either recovered with immunity or were killed quickly without osteo- logical evidence (Ramenofsky 2003). As noted above, however, a variety of biomolecular approaches are now providing a new lens to examine infectious disease and revolutionize our ability to examine the dynamics of infectious disease in the past (e.g., Mühlemann et al. 2020; Schuenemann et al. 2018). The plague, or “Black Death,” touched upon earlier, provides one well-studied archaeological example of the ecological, economic, social, and political dynamics involved with the emergence and spread of a highly virulent infectious disease. The disease ravaged Europe between approximately AD 1347 and 1351, killing 30%–60% of the population and devastating eco- nomic, social, and political systems (DeWitte 2016). Skeletal assemblages in mass burial grounds combined with historical accounts pro- vide a stark account of what unfolded as the dis- ease spread rapidly through the population. As would be expected, the disease killed people too quickly to leave osteological evidence, but ancient DNA consistent with a virulent strain of bubonic plague bacterium (Yersinia pestis) has been extracted from teeth in Europe and Asia (Rasmussen et al. 2015). The age and sex com- position of these mass burial grounds has been studied in detail, and it demonstrates that the dis- ease selectively killed the elderly and individuals who had experienced physiological stress prior to the epidemic (DeWitte and Wood 2008). Strontium and oxygen isotopic data from a mass burial in London demonstrated that roughly 15% of the burial population were immigrants from the countryside, suggesting that mobility contributed to the spread of the disease (Kendall et al. 2013). The Black Death epidemic also occurred in the wake of a climate-driven famine throughout Europe that reduced health and 14 [Vol. 86, No. 1, 2021AMERICAN ANTIQUITY increased frailty in the population, intensifying susceptibility to the disease (DeWitte 2015). The transmission of infectious diseases is known to be exacerbated by climate change, and economic well-being is diminished by crop failures, making individuals more susceptible to negative health outcomes (Patz et al. 2005). Climate-driven famine and increasing human frailty just prior to the Black Death epidemic is consistent with this idea. There are other histor- ical instances where climate change, famine, and disease outbreaks also co-occur. Archaeo- logical and historical data for epidemics in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1369–1901) indicate that epidemics flared up in the context of climate change that depressed economic well-being throughout China (Speir et al. 2016). Episodic drought in the Maya lowlands has also been linked to crop failure and severe famine that resulted in disease outbreaks and increases in mortality and migration (Hoggarth et al. 2017). Consequently, the archaeological record provides long-term data- sets useful for assessing the dire nature of increas- ing health risks that could be associated with future climate predictions. Conclusion Felix Riede (2017) emphasizes that by under- standing the impacts of catastrophes and disas- ters in the past, we can also focus on ideas about resilience within narratives of “past- forwarding” that make archaeology relevant to the present. Although he was speaking largely of environmental catastrophes, the same goal underlies our project here. We might ask, “Are disruptions from epidemics and pandemics dif- ferent from other disasters, especially natural dis- asters such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, or hurricanes?” Pandemics are different from these environmental disasters in at least one major way: pandemics have a different temporality and geographic scale. As our contemporary situ- ation shows, contagious diseases have much longer periods in which they affect populations, and they may even come in waves that endure over months, if not years—although some disas- ters, such as volcanic eruptions, may be sporadic over long periods of time as well. There are, however, many commonalities—population loss and displacement, disruptions in production and supply chains, transformations in social net- works, institutional breakdowns, decreases in human and community security, and many other aspects of lived human experience that change in the wake of disasters (e.g., Hegmon and Peeples 2018). On a more aspirational note, Michelle Hegmon and Matthew Peeples (2018) observe that the negative impacts of social transformation are mitigated by a strong sense of community security, which should spur us as individuals and collectives to better create these moving forward. The exclusion of pandemics from much of the archaeological literature on dis- asters drives our comments here, and we hope that they contribute to our own resiliency. As archaeologists explore the relevance of the human past to understanding a variety of contem- porary societal issues—including climate change, the biodiversity crisis, and broader societal inequi- ties (Kintigh et al. 2014)—infectious disease, epi- demics, and pandemics are another important area of inquiry. The archaeological and historical records from the Americas demonstrate the abun- dance of past epidemics—especially during the colonial era—and the often transformative societal inequities that emerged from these epidemics, as well as their effects on material cul- ture. These examples illustrate the interconnec- tions between the events of several centuries ago and the continued injustices of today, par- ticularly in Indigenous communities, Black com- munities, and other diverse communities. Researchers are well equipped with tools and models to help understand past disease (e.g., aDNA, proteomics, complex systems modeling), but significant obstacles to determining if past disease resulted in epidemics or even pandemics remain. Given the long history of epidemics and pandemics, the COVID-19 pandemic will not be the last, which makes research on disease, dis- ease prevention, and societal responses to out- breaks a high priority. Archaeology has a key role to play in the future study of disease, espe- cially by highlighting the differential effects of past epidemics on Indigenous and other diverse communities as well as helping pursue a more equitable and just future. Gamble et al.] 15FINDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL RELEVANCE DURING A PANDEMIC AND WHAT COMES AFTER Acknowledgments. This truly was a collaborative effort, and every American Antiquity Board member made significant contributions. Lynn Gamble is listed first because she con- ceived of the idea for the article and contributed sections throughout, primarily to the introduction and conclusion, as well as transitions between sections. She also guided the authors through the entire process. Authors with primary roles—those who contributed substantial sections—are next listed in alphabetical order. These are followed by those who wrote short sections or primarily provided editorial changes and comments. They are also listed in alphabetical order. Jelmer Eerkens wrote the introductory section on paleopathology and insights into ancient human disease. Pat Lambert contributed the section on infectious disease in the Americas before and after European contact. This is followed by a section that Doug Kennett wrote on the ecology of infec- tious disease, agriculture, and demographic transitions. He also contributed to the introductory material, with some addi- tions by Natasha Lyons and Torrey Rick. Torrey Rick also helped edit the entire document and wrote the concluding paragraph. In addition to authoring the abstract and short sec- tions throughout, Natasha Lyons thoroughly edited and com- mented on the article, and she provided help with references and many other aspects. Barbara Mills wrote the section on epidemics, pandemics, and material culture, and she was key in supporting the original ideas of the article. Matt Lieb- mann authored the introductory material in the section on epi- demic disease among Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, and other underrepresented groups. Tsim Schneider, who wrote the section on mobility, was also involved throughout the process. Cheryl Claassen provided the section on exam- ples from Mexico. Steve Silliman and Chris Rodning wrote the section on inequality, vulnerability, and effects of margin- alization on Black Americans. Doug Bamforth wrote some brief sections throughout and contributed ideas, as did Susan Alt, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, and Anna Prentiss. The par- ticipation of the entire board in this unusual collaboration contributed to the diverse perspectives and depth of knowl- edge. We also acknowledge Tim Kohler, who served as guest editor for the article and provided constructive com- ments, as well as two peer reviewers who helped improve it. 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