Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing History Through Skeletal Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780471042792 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str.

Grauer; Anne L. Grauer

Opis

Subtitled Reconstructing history through skeletal analysis', the fourteen papers in this volume address the practical and scientific issues involved in studying cemetery remains in North America. Though using American and Canadian case studies, many of the papers have wider application and relevance. Contributors include: L Goldstein (Politics, law, pragmatics and human burial excavations); D Ubelaker (Historic cemetery analysis); S Nawrocki (Taphonomic processes in historic cemeteries); S Saunders & others (Can skeletal samples accurately represent the living population they come from?); J Harrington & R Blakely (Bioarchaeology of historic remains in nonmortuary contexts); C LArsern & others (Life and death on the Midwestern frontier); T Crist (Bone chemistry analysis and documentary archaeology) .

Spis treści

Partial table of contents:

ISSUES AND CONSIDERATIONS.

Politics, Law, Pragmatics, and Human Burial Excavations: An Example from Northern California (L. Goldstein).

Historic Cemetery Analysis: Practical Considerations (D. Ubelaker).

THE ASSESSMENT OF DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS.

A Piece of Chicago′s Past: Exploring Subadult Mortality in the Dunning Poorhouse Cemetery (A. Grauer & E. McNamara).

Bones in the Basement: Bioarchaeology of Historic Remains in Nonmortuary Contexts (J. Harrington & R. Blakely).

RECONSTRUCTING PATTERNS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE.

Cross Homestead: Life and Death on the Midwestern Frontier (C. Larsen, et al.).

Dental Pathologies Among Inmates of the Monroe County Poorhouse (R. Sutter).

Nitrogen Isotope Evidence for Weaning Age in a Nineteenth Century Canadian Skeletal Sample (M. Katzenberg & S. Pfeiffer).

Index.

O autorze

Anne L. Grauer received her Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Her research interests include paleopathology (the study of ancient human disease) and paleodemography (the study of ancient human mortality, fertility, and migration patterns). In particular, Dr. Grauer′s research interests focus on the lives of women and the impact that sex and gender have on morbidity and mortality.