The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico
Five Centuries of Change
Bioarchaeology of Care through Population-Level Analyses
Leprosy
Past and Present
Through an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic 7,000-year history of leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many longstanding myths about the disease.
- Copyright year: 2020
Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited
This volume highlights new directions in the study of social identities in past populations. Contributors expand the scope of the field regionally, methodically, and theoretically, moving behind the previous focus on single aspects of identity by demonstrating multi-scalar approaches and by explicitly addressing intersectionality in the archaeological record.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange
Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials
Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands
- Copyright year: 2019
Mortuary and Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Bronze Age Arabia
- Copyright year: 2019
Massacres
Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Approaches
This volume integrates data from researchers in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology to explain when and why group-targeted violence occurs. Massacres have plagued both ancient and modern societies, and by analyzing skeletal remains from these events within their broader cultural and historical contexts this volume opens up important new understandings of the underlying social processes that continue to lead to these tragedies.
- Copyright year: 2018
Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
An Interdisciplinary Approach
This volume offers a novel interdisciplinary view of the migration, mobility, ethnicity, and social identities of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican peoples. In studies that combine bioarchaeology, ethnohistory, isotope data, and dental morphology, contributors demonstrate the challenges and rewards of such integrative work when applied to large regional questions of population history.
- Copyright year: 2018
Children and Childhood in Bioarchaeology
Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives
- Copyright year: 2018
Victims of Ireland's Great Famine
The Bioarchaeology of Mass Burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse
- Copyright year: 2015