BIOARCHAEOLOGY : Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton
Language: English Publication details: New York Cambride University Press 2015/01/01Edition: 2Description: 608ISBN:- 9780521547482
- 930.1 LAR/BI
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Reference | Ernakulam Public Library Reference | Reference | 930.1 LAR/BI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | E193613 |
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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