Larsen, Clark Spencer.

BIOARCHAEOLOGY : Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton - 2 - New York Cambride University Press 2015/01/01 - 608

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.

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