"Pulls together a global sampling of excellent research on a topic of great interest to scholars of prehistory that otherwise would be difficult to assemble or in some cases to even access."--Patricia M. Lambert, Utah State University
Twenty years ago Mark Nathan Cohen coedited a collection of essays that set a new standard in using paleopathology to identify trends in health associated with changes in prehistoric technology, economy, demography, and political centralization. Ancient Health expands and celebrates that work.
Confirming earlier conclusions that human...
"Pulls together a global sampling of excellent research on a topic of great interest to scholars of prehistory that otherwise would be difficult to...
Makes an important contribution to our understanding of the challenges our ancestors faced during the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture. . . . A well-organized and highly readable volume that synthesizes an enormous amount of data on what is perhaps the most significant economic transformation in the history of our species. American Anthropologist
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...
Makes an important contribution to our understanding of the challenges our ancestors faced during the transition from hunting and gathering to agr...
"A ground-breaking study that provides one of the best case studies we have in the bioarchaeology of violence. A must-read for anyone interested in the origin and evolution of aggression and violence in human societies."--Debra L. Martin, University of Nevada
"In this exciting new work, Dr. Tung provides the first comprehensive view of life and the bodies inside ancient Peru's Wari Empire. Situating the study of archaeological human remains where bioarchaeology and the contemporary archaeology intersect, Tung focuses on the lived experience of Wari inhabitants to explore the creation...
"A ground-breaking study that provides one of the best case studies we have in the bioarchaeology of violence. A must-read for anyone interested in...
"Using subadult skeletons from the Deccan Chalcolithic period of Indian prehistory, along with archaeological and paleoclimate data, this volume makes an important contribution to understanding the effects of ecological change on demography and childhood growth during the second millennium B.C. in peninsular India."--Michael Pietrusewsky, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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...
"Using subadult skeletons from the Deccan Chalcolithic period of Indian prehistory, along with archaeological and paleoclimate data, this volume ma...
"The tragedies of violence have seldom been told with such a compelling use of the biocultural perspective. Building on a solid methodological foundation, we are served theoretical perspectives that are unusually rich and nuanced in their application to the case studies. This collection of case studies is a valuable contribution to the bioarchaeological literature."--George Armelagos, Emory University
Human violence is an inescapable aspect of our society and culture. As the archaeological record clearly shows, this has always been true. What is its origin? What role does it play in...
"The tragedies of violence have seldom been told with such a compelling use of the biocultural perspective. Building on a solid methodological foun...
Illustrates s] how the study of individuals complements population-level analysis, and enhances understanding of what life was like for earlier populations. The essays offer glimpses into the lives of individuals who lived and died at different times, and represent a variety of geographic and cultural settings from around the world. Recommended. Choice This very readable book presents detail on how the science employed in bioarchaeology allows information to be revealed about the lives and deaths of people of the past. Journal of Anthropological...
Illustrates s] how the study of individuals complements population-level analysis, and enhances understanding of what life was like for earlier popula...
"A valuable survey of the many ways that human heads have been taken, modified, and curated by various cultures around the world. Good critical reviews of the context and meaning of human head collecting across time and space. Includes some innovative analytical techniques for determining the origins and identities of disembodied heads."--John W. Verano, Tulane University "A welcome contribution to the growing literature of anthropological perspectives of the human skull."--John Krigbaum, University of Florida Building on the notion that human remains provide a window into the past,...
"A valuable survey of the many ways that human heads have been taken, modified, and curated by various cultures around the world. Good critical review...
A true, balanced bioarchaeological work of scholarship elucidating the way of life and death for the people of Passo Marinaro. Sherry C. Fox, coeditor of New Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece This excellent study comprehensive in its research, sophisticated in its theory, meticulous in its analysis, lucid in its presentation sets a new standard in the young, exciting field of the bioarchaeology of the early Greek world. Joseph L. Rife, author of Isthmia IX: The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains Sulosky Weaver eloquently weaves Greek myth and...
A true, balanced bioarchaeological work of scholarship elucidating the way of life and death for the people of Passo Marinaro. Sherry C. Fox, coeditor...
"Sets Irish archaeology on an exciting new course by tangibly proving the harshness of the famine and the workhouse system."--Charles E. Orser Jr., author of The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America "Sheds critical new light on the actualities of daily life in Famine-era Ireland, challenges some of the myths about the horrors of the workhouse experience, and restores humanity to the nameless dead."--Audrey Horning, author of Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic With one million dead, and just as many forced to...
"Sets Irish archaeology on an exciting new course by tangibly proving the harshness of the famine and the workhouse system."--Charles E. Orser Jr., au...
Breaks new ground regarding how to think about colonial encounters in innovative ways that pay attention to a wide range of issues from health and demography to identity formations and adaptation. Debra L. Mart in, coeditor of The Bioarchaeology of Violence Amply demonstrates the breadth and variability of the impact of colonialism. Ken Nystrom, State University of New York at New Paltz 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...
Breaks new ground regarding how to think about colonial encounters in innovative ways that pay attention to a wide range of issues from health and dem...
