Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global – serie
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Bioarchaeology and Climate Change
A View from South Asian Prehistory
Häftad, 2017
225 kr
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In the context of current debates about global warming, archaeology contributes important insights for understanding environmental changes in prehistory, and the consequences and responses of past populations to them.In Indian archaeology, climate change and monsoon variability are often invoked to …
Island Shores, Distant Pasts
Archaeological and Biological Approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean
Av Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Ann H. Ross
Häftad, 2017
297 kr
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For more than a century, archaeologists and anthropologists have searched for evidence of when and how peoples first settled the Caribbean islands. Research on this area is pivotal for understanding the migration of peoples in the New World and how small and large populations develop biologically …
World View of Bioculturally Modified Teeth
Av Scott E. Burnett, Joel D. Irish
Häftad, 2017
1226 kr
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Tooth modification has been practiced throughout many time periods and places to convey information about individual people, their societies, and their relationships to others. This volume represents the wide spectrum of intentional dental modification in humans across the globe over the past …
Colonized Bodies, Worlds Transformed
Toward a Global Bioarchaeology of Contact and Colonialism
Av Melissa S. Murphy, Haagen D. Klaus
Inbunden, 2017
1400 kr
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Colonized Bodies, Worlds Transformed represents a new generation of contact and colonialism studies, expanding upon a traditional focus on the health of conquered peoples toward how extraordinary biological and political transformations are incorporated into the human body, reflecting behavior, …
Bioarchaeology of Classical Kamarina
Life and Death in Greek Sicily
Inbunden, 2015
994 kr
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Human remains and burial customs are often considered separately in studies of ancient Greek populations. In this seminal work, Carrie Sulosky Weaver synthesizes skeletal, material, and ritual data to reconstruct the cultural practices of Kamarina, a city-state in Sicily.Using evidence from 258 …
Victims of Ireland's Great Famine
The Bioarchaeology of Mass Burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse
Av Jonny Geber
Inbunden, 2015
994 kr
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With one million dead, and just as many forced to emigrate, the Irish Famine (1845-52) is among the worst health calamities in history. In 2006, archaeologists discovered a mass burial containing the remains of nearly 1,000 Kilkenny Union workhouse inmates. In the first bioarchaeological study of …
Bones of Complexity
Bioarchaeological Case Studies of Social Organization and Skeletal Biology
Av Haagen D. Klaus, Amanda R. Harvey
Inbunden, 2017
1168 kr
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Provides data and information that can be used for comparative analysis and as a foundation for further exploration. Inviting research from various geographic, cultural, and temporal locales from around the globe, the editors present a complex snapshot of the past.”—Anne L. Grauer, editor of A …
Bioarchaeology and Behavior
The People of the Ancient Near East
Häftad, 2018
283 kr
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While mortuary ruins have long fascinated archaeologists and art historians interested in the cultures of the Near East and eastern Mediterranean, the human skeletal remains contained in the tombs of this region have garnered less attention. In Bioarchaeology and Behavior, Megan Perry presents a …
Colonized Bodies, Worlds Transformed
Toward a Global Bioarchaeology of Contact and Colonialism
Av Melissa S. Murphy, Haagen D. Klaus
Häftad, 2021
471 kr
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European expansion into the New World fundamentally altered Indigenous populations. The collision between East and West led to the most recent human adaptive transition that spread around the world. Paradoxically, these are some of the least scientifically understood processes of the human past. …
Bioarchaeology of East Asia
Movement, Contact, Health
Av Kate Pechenkina, Marc Oxenham
Häftad, 2025
457 kr
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A collection of research on migration, diet, and health in the past across a culturally complex regionBioarchaeology of East Asia integrates studies on migration, diet, and diverse aspects of health through the study of human skeletal collections in a region that developed varying forms of …
