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... Lees meer.

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. Martin coeditor of The Bioarchaeology of Violence Amply demon... Lees meer.

Investigations of skeletal remains from key archaeological sites reveal new data and offer insights on prehistoric life and health in the Southeast. The shift from foraging to farming had important health consequences for prehistoric peoples but variations in health ex... Lees meer.

Rakhigarhi situated in Hisar District Haryana India is one of the largest metropolises of the Harappan Civilization found so far. After introducing the excavations that took place 2011-2017 and setting out the objectives of the project this book focuses on the unco... Lees meer.

This volume features bioarchaeological research that interrogates the human skeleton in concert with material culture ethnographic data and archival research. This volume features bioarchaeological research that interrogates the human skeleton in concert with materia... Lees meer.

Windover 8BR46 represents one of the most ancient and well-preserved skeletal populations in North America. Excavated in the 1980s from a mortuary pond near Florida s eastern coast the remains represent over 168 individuals from neonates to elderly enabling an eval... Lees meer.

The Hopewell peoples lived in the Scioto valley and neighboring areas in Ohio in the first centuries A.D. This is the first book to examine them using a holistic approach. It is based on 10 years of research and analysis of data uncovered at several sites. This book p... Lees meer.

In 2010 a pit containing human skeletal elements was discovered at the site of the former Army hospital in San Francisco. Archaeologists determined that the bones were remains from anatomical dissections conducted in the 1870s. This volume uses historical archaeologic... Lees meer.

An excellent compilation of new methods and theories in Caribbean archaeology. . . . Not only materialize s the methodological advance in Caribbean archaeology but also signif ies the strong theoretical progression that this discipline is experiencing. --Journal of... 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.

This volume features bioarchaeological research that interrogates the human skeleton in concert with material culture ethnographic data and archival research. This volume features bioarchaeological research that interrogates the human skeleton in concert with materia... Lees meer.

Hunter-gatherer lifestyles defined the origins of modern humans and for tens of thousands of years were the only form of subsistence our species knew. This changed with the advent of food production which occurred at different times throughout the world. The chapters i... Lees meer.

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A dissertation on the Neolithic to early Iron Age skeletal remains looking at demographic parameters at health status diet and so forth of the cemetery population and sub-groups attempting to reconstruct aspects of the lifestyle of the deceased and funerary treatmen... 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.... Lees meer.