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 littl... Lees meer.

Entangled Identities and Otherness in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe is een boek van British Archaeological Reports... Lees meer.

Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship despite the fact that practitioners work closely... Lees meer.

This book synthesizes in-depth bioarchaeological research into diet subsistence regimes and nutrition and corresponding insights into adaptation suffering and resilience among indigenous north-coastal Peruvian communities from early agricultural through European col... Lees meer.

Every year there are over 1.6 million violent deaths worldwide making violence one of the leading public health issues of our time. And with the 20th century just behind us it s hard to forget that 191 million people lost their lives directly or indirectly through co... Lees meer.

This volume explores the role that injury recidivism and accumulative trauma plays in prehistoric historic and modern contexts. Case studies provide examples of the ways in which skeletal remains can be used to understand and analyze repetitive trauma. Injury recid... Lees meer.

Integrates data from researchers in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology to explain when and why group-targeted violence occurs. By analysing skeletal remains within their broader cultural and historical contexts this volume opens up important new understandings of... Lees meer.

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 territ... Lees meer.

Biological Distance Analysis. Forensic and Bioarchaeological Perspectives synthesizes research within the realm of biological distance analysis highlighting current work within the field and discussing future directions. The book is divided into three main sections. T... Lees meer.

This volume features bioarchaeological research that interrogates the human skeleton in concert with material culture ethnographic data and archival research. This approach provides examples of how these intersections of inquiry can be used to consider the larger socia... Lees meer.

Bioarchaeology is one of the lesser-known fields of physical anthropology and yet it is one of the most researched topics in physical anthropology. Bioarchaeology an ever-growing dynamic research field is the study of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites t... Lees meer.

Every year there are over 1.6 million violent deaths worldwide making violence one of the leading public health issues of our time. And with the 20th century just behind us it s hard to forget that 191 million people lost their lives directly or indirectly through co... Lees meer.

This study analyses 161 individuals from the Alepotrya Cave located on the west coast of the Tainaron Peninsula of Southern Greece. In it Papathanasiou outlines the history of the site the history of this type of research and sets out the aims and methodology for her... Lees meer.

In this volume the authors examine the ways social inequalities and differences affected health and wellbeing in ancient Greece. Although the ancient Greek civilization is often associated with the ideals of democracy and social equality the region was characterized b... Lees meer.

This book synthesizes in-depth bioarchaeological research into diet subsistence regimes and nutrition and corresponding insights into adaptation suffering and resilience among indigenous north-coastal Peruvian communities from early agricultural through European col... Lees meer.