Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives – serie
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Bioarchaeology of the Human Head
Decapitation, Decoration and Deformation
Inbunden, 2011
1219 kr
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Building on the notion that human remains provide a window into the past, especially regarding identity, the contributors to this volume reflect on intentional and ritualized practices of manipulating the human head within ancient societies. These essays explore the human head’s symbolic role in …
Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas
Av Kelly J. Knudsen, Christopher M. Stojanowski
Häftad, 2010
399 kr
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Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas represents an important shift in the interpretation of skeletal remains in the Americas. Until recently, bioarchaeology has focused on interpreting and analyzing populations. The contributors here look to examine how individuals fit into those larger …
Violence, Ritual and the Wari Empire
A Social Bioarchaeology of Imperialism in the Ancient Andes
Häftad, 2013
283 kr
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The Wari Empire thrived in the Peruvian Andes between AD 600 and 1000. This study of human skeletons reveals the biological and social impact of Wari imperialism on people's lives, particularly its effects on community organisation and frequency of violence of both ruling elites and subjects.The …
Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture
Av Mark N. Cohen, George J. Armelagos
Häftad, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
457 kr
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In 1982, the Conference on Paleopathology and Socioeconomic Change at the Origins of Agriculture was held in Plattsburgh, New York, to examine previously untested theories about how the adoption of agriculture had impacted human health. The collection of those conference proceedings transformed …
Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Av Cathy Willermet, Andrea Cucina
Inbunden, 2018
1052 kr
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This volume offers a novel interdisciplinary view of the migration, mobility, ethnicity, and social identities of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican peoples. In studies that combine bioarchaeology, ethnohistory, isotope data, and dental morphology, contributors demonstrate the challenges and rewards of …
Children and Childhood in Bioarchaeology
Av Patrick Beauchesne, Sabrina C. Agarwal
Inbunden, 2018
1284 kr
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As researchers become increasingly interested in studying the lives of children in antiquity, this volume argues for the importance of a collaborative biocultural approach. Contributors draw on fields including skeletal biology and physiology, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, pediatrics, …
Bioarchaeology of Individuals
Av Ann L. W. Stodder, Ann M. Palkovich
Häftad, 2014
297 kr
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From Bronze Age Thailand to Viking Iceland, from an Egyptian oasis to a family farm in Canada, The Bioarchaeology of Individuals invites readers to unearth the daily lives of people throughout history. Covering a span of more than four thousand years of human history and focusing on individuals who …
Victims of Ireland's Great Famine
The Bioarchaeology of Mass Burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse
Av Jonny Geber
Häftad, 2018
283 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. Because historical records of the Victorian period in Ireland were generally written by the middle and upper classes, relatively little has been known about those …
Massacres
Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Approaches
Av Cheryl P. Anderson, Debra L. Martin
Inbunden, 2018
1110 kr
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This volume integrates data from researchers in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology to explain when and why group-targeted violence occurs. Massacres have plagued both ancient and modern societies, and by analyzing skeletal remains from these events within their broader cultural and historical …
Mortuary and Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Bronze Age Arabia
Av Kimberly D. Williams, Lesley A. Gregoricka
Inbunden, 2019
1168 kr
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This volume brings together experts in archaeology and bioarchaeology to examine continuity and change in ancient Arabian mortuary practices. While most previous investigations have been limited geographically to Egypt and the Levant, this volume focuses on the lesser-studied southeastern Arabian …
Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands
Av Cristina I. Tica, Debra L. Martin
Inbunden, 2019
1284 kr
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Frontiers and territorial borders are places of contested power where societies collide, interact, and interconnect. Using bioanthropological case studies from around the world, this volume explores how people in the past created, maintained, or changed their identities while living on the edge …
Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange
Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials
Av Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1110 kr
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Abnormal burial practices have long been a source of fascination and debate within the fields of mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange investigates an unparalleled geographic and temporal range of burials that differ from the usual customs of their broader …
Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited
Av Kelly J. Knudson, Christopher M. Stojanowski
Inbunden, 2020
1110 kr
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This volume highlights new directions in the study of social identities in past populations. Building on the field-defining research in Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas, contributors expand the scope of the subject regionally, theoretically, and methodologically. This collection moves …
Leprosy
Past and Present
Inbunden, 2020
1516 kr
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Through an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic several-thousand-year history of leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many long-standing myths about the disease.Drawing on …
Bioarchaeology of Care Through Population-Level Analyses
Av Alecia Schrenk, Lori A. Tremblay
Inbunden, 2022
994 kr
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Representing current and emerging methods and theory, this volume introduces new avenues for exploring how prehistoric and historic communities provided healthcare for their sick, injured, and disabled members. It adjusts and expands the bioarchaeology of care framework, a way of analyzing …
Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Anatomical Dissection at a Nineteenth-Century Army Hospital in San Francisco
Av P. Willey, Peter Gavette m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1052 kr
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An archaeological site that tells a story of structural violence in medical researchIn 2010, a pit containing over 4,000 human skeletal elements was discovered at the site of the former Army hospital at Point San Jose in San Francisco. Local archaeologists determined that the bones, which were …
Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico
Five Centuries of Change
Av Heather J. H. Edgar, Cathy Willermet
Inbunden, 2023
1052 kr
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Examining the long-lasting effects of European colonization on Mexican populationsThe Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico explores how Mexican populations have been shaped both culturally and biologically by the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and the years following the defeat of the …
Social Inequality and Difference in the Ancient Greek World
Bioarchaeological Perspectives
Inbunden, 2024
1284 kr
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Exploring the relationship between health and inequality in the societies of ancient Greece In this volume, bioarchaeologists, osteologists, archaeologists, and paleopathologists examine the ways social inequalities and differences affected health and wellbeing in ancient Greece. Although the …
Roman Bioarchaeology
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life and Death in the Roman World
Av Elizabeth A. Bews, Kathryn E. Marklein
Inbunden, 2025
1052 kr
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How bioarchaeology can illuminate the lived experiences of people in the Roman Empire Research on the Roman Empire has long focused on Rome’s legendary leaders, culture, and conquest. But at the empire’s peak, tens of millions of ordinary people coexisted in its territories—people who built the …
Bioarchaeology of the Southwest
Volume 1
Av Ann L. W. Stodder, Dawn M. Mulhern
Inbunden, 2025
1284 kr
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Bioarchaeology of the Southwest
Volume 2
Av Ann L. W. Stodder, Dawn M. Mulhern
Inbunden, 2025
1284 kr
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Bioarchaeology and Climate Change
A View from South Asian Prehistory
Inbunden, 2011
927 kr
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Bioarchaeology of East Asia
Movement, Contact, Health
Av Kate Pechenkina, Marc Oxenham
Inbunden, 2013
1157 kr
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East Asia spans more than 10 million square kilometres. The human remains examined by the contributors in this volume date from the Early Neolithic (more than 12,000 years ago) to the Iron Age (up to AD 500).Bioarchaeology of East Asia interprets human skeletal collections from a region where …
Mission Cemetaries, Mission Peoples
Historical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Intracemetery Bioarchaeology in Spanish Florida
Inbunden, 2013
927 kr
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Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples offers clear, accessible explanations of complex methods for observing evolutionary effects in populations. Christopher Stojanowski’s intimate knowledge of the historical, archaeological, and skeletal data illuminates the existing narrative of diet, disease, and …
Tracing Childhood
Bioarchaeological Investigations of Early Lives in Antiquity
Av Jennifer L. Thompson, Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
984 kr
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Bio-archaeological studies of children have, until recently, centred on population data–driven topics like mortality rates and growth and morbidity patterns. This volume examines emerging issues in childhood studies, looking at historic and prehistoric contexts and framing questions about the …
