BIOARCHAEOLOGY : Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton
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- New York Cambride University Press 2015/01/01
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The dead tell no tales. Or do they? In this text, Clark Spencer Larsen shows that the dead can speak to us - about their lives and ours - through the insights of bioarchaeology, which reconstructs the lives and lifestyles of past peoples based on the study of skeletal remains.
1 Introduction 2. Stress and Deprivation During Growth and Development and Adulthood 3. Exposure to infectious pathogens 4. Injury and Violence 5. Activity patterns:1. Articular degenerative conditions and Musculoskeletal Modifications 6. Activity patterns:2. Structural Adaptation 7. Masticatory and Nonmasticatory Functions: Craniofacial adaptation to mechanical Loading 8. Isotopic and Elemental signatures of diet, nutrition and life history 9. Biological distance and Historical dimensions of skeletal variation 10. Bioarchaeological Paleodemography: interpreting age-at-death structure 11. Bio-archaeology: skeletons in context
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Human skeleton - Analysis. Human remains (Archaeology) Population -History. Human Remains. Human Skeleton- analysis. Larsen, Clark Spencer.