The Bioarchaeology of Individuals

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8130-6027-9
Verlag: University Press of Florida

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives

From Bronze Age Thailand to Viking Iceland, from an Egyptian oasis to a family farm in Canada, The Bioarchaeology of Individuals invites readers to unearth the daily lives of people throughout history. Covering a span of more than four thousand years of human history and focusing on individuals who lived between 3200 BC and the nineteenth century, the essays in this book examine the lives of nomads, warriors, artisans, farmers, and healers.

The contributors employ a wide range of tools, including traditional macroscopic skeletal analysis, bone chemistry, ancient DNA, grave contexts, and local legends, sagas, and other historical information. The collection as a whole presents a series of osteobiographies profiles of the lives of specific individuals whose remains were excavated from archaeological sites. The result offers a more ""personal"" approach to mortuary archaeology; this is a book about people not just bones.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stodder, Ann L W

Palkovich, Ann M

Über Autor(innen)

Ann L.W. Stodder is a research associate in anthropology at the Field Museum.

Ann M. Palkovich is an associate professor emerita of anthropology at George Mason University.