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Titolo |
The bioarchaeology of individuals [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ann L.W. Stodder and Ann M. Palkovich ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen |
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Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2012 |
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0-8130-4313-1 |
0-8130-4274-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Collana |
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Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past : local, regional, and global perspectives |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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StodderAnn Lucy Wiener |
PalkovichAnn M |
LarsenClark Spencer |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human remains (Archaeology) |
Persons - History |
Biography |
Bones - Social aspects - History |
Excavations (Archaeology) |
Historic sites |
Social archaeology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Osteobiography and Bioarchaeology / Ann L. W. Stodder and Ann M. Palkovich -- Part 1. Ancestors and Descendants -- The Magician : An Ancestral Hopi Leader / Jill E. Neitzel -- The Axed Man of Mosfell : Skeletal Evidence of a Viking Age Homicide, the Icelandic Sagas, and Feud / Phillip L. Walker, Jesse Byock, Jacqueline T. Eng, Jon M. Erlandson, Per Holck, Henry Schwarcz, and Davide Zori -- Legendary Chamorro Strength : Skeletal Embodiment and the Boundaries of Interpretation / Gary M. Heathcote, Vincent P. Diego, Hajime Ishida, and Vincent J. Sava -- Mortuary Evidence for Maya Political Resistance and Religious Syncretism in Colonial Belize / Gabriel D. Wrobel -- Part 2. Ancient Travelers and "Others" -- Social Marginalization among the Chiribaya : The Curandero of Yaral, Southern Peru / Maria Cecilia |
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Lozada, Kelly J. Knudson, Rex C. Haydon, and Jane E. Buikstra -- A Neolithic Nomad from Dakhleh Oasis / Jennifer L. Thompson -- Lesley : A Unique Bronze Age Individual from Southeastern Arabia / Debra L. Martin and Daniel T. Potts -- The "African Queen" : A Portuguese Mystery / Mary Lucas Powell, Della Collins Cook, Maia M. Langley, Susan Dale Spencer, Jennifer Raff, and Frederika Kaestle -- Part 3. Craftsmen and Artisans -- Sew Long? The Osteobiography of a Woman from Medieval Polis, Cyprus / Brenda J. Baker, Claire E. Terhune, and Amy Papalexandrou -- A Master Artisan? Tribute to the Founder of a Teotihuacan Apartment Compound / Rebecca Storey and Randolph J. Widmer -- Vulcan : Skilled Village Craftsman of Ban Chiang, Thailand / Michele Toomay Douglas and Michael Pietrusewsky -- Written in Stone, Written in Bone : The Osteobiography of a Bronze Age Craftsman from Alalakh / Alexis T. Boutin -- Part 4. Farm and Village -- Life and Death of a Mother and Child in Nineteenth-Century Ontario, Canada / M. Anne Katzenberg and Shelley R. Saunders -- Thumbprints of a Midwife : Birth and Infant Death in an Ancient Pueblo Community / Charles F. Merbs -- Reading a Life : A Fourteenth-Century Ancestral Puebloan Woman / Ann M. Palkovich -- From Cradle to Grave and Beyond : A Maya Life and Death / Pamela L. Geller. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 cont |
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