Bioarchaeology : interpreting behavior from the human skeleton / Clark Spencer Larsen, the Ohio State University, USA
"Now including numerous full colour figures, this updated and revised edition of Larsen's classic text provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of bioarchaeology. Reflecting the enormous advances made in the field over the past twenty years, the author examines how this discip...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
[2015]
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| Edition: | Second edition |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Stress and deprivation during growth and development and adulthood
- Exposure to infectious pathogens
- Injury and violence
- Activity patterns 1: articular degenerative conditions and musculo-skeletal modifications
- Activity patterns 2: structural adaptation
- Masticatory and nonmasticatory functions: craniofacial adaptation to mechanical loading
- Isotopic and elemental signatures of diet, nutrition, and life history
- Biological distance and historical dimensions of skeletal variation
- Bioarchaeological paleodemography: interpreting age-at-death structures
- Bioarchaeology: skeletons in context
- References