Social Bioarchaeology
Agarwal, Sabrina C
Social Bioarchaeology / Sabrina C Agarwal - Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2011. - xix, 449p. 24cm.
Cover; Half title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Series Editors' Preface; 1 Building a Social Bioarchaeology; Part I: Materials and Meaning: The Nature of Skeletal Samples; 2 The Origins of Biocultural Dimensions in Bioarchaeology; Introduction; Origins of the Biocultural Approach; The Biocultural Approach within Biological Anthropology and Bioarchaeology; The Emergence and Development of a Bioculturally-Oriented Bioarchaeology; The Current State of Bioculturally-Oriented Bioarchaeological Research; Conclusion; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 3 Partnerships, Pitfalls, and Ethical Concerns in International BioarchaeologyIntroduction; Ethics and Bioarchaeology in the United States; Bioarchaeological Praxis in Peru: A Brief Contextual Overview; Key Areas in Peruvian Bioarchaeology; Conclusions; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 4 The Formation of Mortuary Deposits; Implications for Understanding Mortuary Behavior of Past Populations; Formation Processes of Mortuary Deposits; Rethinking Formation Processes of Mortuary Deposits at Tikal; Discussion and Conclusions; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 5 Representativeness and Bias in Archaeological Skeletal Samples. IntroductionBias: Can We Recognize It, Can We Compensate for It?; Error and Bias: Methodological Sources Relating to Current Practices for Estimating Adult Age at Death; Teeth, Attrition, and Seriation: An Experimental Approach to Inclusive and Comparable Estimates of Adult Age Distributions; Do the Dead Constitute a Biased Sample? A Different Dental Perspective; Summary: Not Just One Type of Bias ... ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Part II: Social Identity: Bioarchaeology of Sex, Gender, Ethnicity, and Disability; 6 Sex and Gender in Bioarchaeological Research; Theory, Method, and Interpretation. Theoretical Issues: Relationships Between/Among Sex and GenderMajor Research Themes; Future Research; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 7 Population Migration, Variation, and Identity; An Islamic Population in Iberia; Bioarchaeological Identity; The Bioarchaeology of Ethnicity; Identifying Migration; Population Variation and Affinity; Islam and Medieval Iberia; Islamic Écija; Identity and Ethnicity in Islamic Ecija; Funerary Aspects of Identity; Migration and Mobility in the Écija Population; Craniometric Ethnicity; Nonmetric Traits and Ethnicity; Iberian Genetic Identity and Ethnicity. Bioarchaeological Identity within Islamic ÉcijaACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 8 Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Colonial New York; A Bioarchaeological Study of the New York African Burial Ground; Introduction; African American Bioarchaeology and the New York African Burial Ground Project; The New York African Burial Ground Site; Dental Enamel Development and Disruption: Hypoplasia; Overview of Materials and Method; Results; A Temporal Analysis Utilizing the Archaeological Record; Harris Lines; Discussion: Life Histories in Context; Conclusion; 9 The Bioarchaeology of Leprosy and Tuberculosis.
Illustrates new methodological directions in analyzing human social and biological variationOffers a wide array of research on past populations around the globeExplains the central features of bioarchaeological research by key researchers and established experts around the world.
9781444337679
Segment Book Distributors :22, Prakash Deep 1st Floor Delhi Medical Association Road Daryaganj New Delhi
History
History of ancient world to ca. 499
Human remains (Archaeology)
Social archaeology
Social archaeology
Adaptation (Biology)
Human growth.
Life spans (Biology)
930.1 AGA
Social Bioarchaeology / Sabrina C Agarwal - Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2011. - xix, 449p. 24cm.
Cover; Half title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Series Editors' Preface; 1 Building a Social Bioarchaeology; Part I: Materials and Meaning: The Nature of Skeletal Samples; 2 The Origins of Biocultural Dimensions in Bioarchaeology; Introduction; Origins of the Biocultural Approach; The Biocultural Approach within Biological Anthropology and Bioarchaeology; The Emergence and Development of a Bioculturally-Oriented Bioarchaeology; The Current State of Bioculturally-Oriented Bioarchaeological Research; Conclusion; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 3 Partnerships, Pitfalls, and Ethical Concerns in International BioarchaeologyIntroduction; Ethics and Bioarchaeology in the United States; Bioarchaeological Praxis in Peru: A Brief Contextual Overview; Key Areas in Peruvian Bioarchaeology; Conclusions; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 4 The Formation of Mortuary Deposits; Implications for Understanding Mortuary Behavior of Past Populations; Formation Processes of Mortuary Deposits; Rethinking Formation Processes of Mortuary Deposits at Tikal; Discussion and Conclusions; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 5 Representativeness and Bias in Archaeological Skeletal Samples. IntroductionBias: Can We Recognize It, Can We Compensate for It?; Error and Bias: Methodological Sources Relating to Current Practices for Estimating Adult Age at Death; Teeth, Attrition, and Seriation: An Experimental Approach to Inclusive and Comparable Estimates of Adult Age Distributions; Do the Dead Constitute a Biased Sample? A Different Dental Perspective; Summary: Not Just One Type of Bias ... ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Part II: Social Identity: Bioarchaeology of Sex, Gender, Ethnicity, and Disability; 6 Sex and Gender in Bioarchaeological Research; Theory, Method, and Interpretation. Theoretical Issues: Relationships Between/Among Sex and GenderMajor Research Themes; Future Research; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 7 Population Migration, Variation, and Identity; An Islamic Population in Iberia; Bioarchaeological Identity; The Bioarchaeology of Ethnicity; Identifying Migration; Population Variation and Affinity; Islam and Medieval Iberia; Islamic Écija; Identity and Ethnicity in Islamic Ecija; Funerary Aspects of Identity; Migration and Mobility in the Écija Population; Craniometric Ethnicity; Nonmetric Traits and Ethnicity; Iberian Genetic Identity and Ethnicity. Bioarchaeological Identity within Islamic ÉcijaACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 8 Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Colonial New York; A Bioarchaeological Study of the New York African Burial Ground; Introduction; African American Bioarchaeology and the New York African Burial Ground Project; The New York African Burial Ground Site; Dental Enamel Development and Disruption: Hypoplasia; Overview of Materials and Method; Results; A Temporal Analysis Utilizing the Archaeological Record; Harris Lines; Discussion: Life Histories in Context; Conclusion; 9 The Bioarchaeology of Leprosy and Tuberculosis.
Illustrates new methodological directions in analyzing human social and biological variationOffers a wide array of research on past populations around the globeExplains the central features of bioarchaeological research by key researchers and established experts around the world.
9781444337679
Segment Book Distributors :22, Prakash Deep 1st Floor Delhi Medical Association Road Daryaganj New Delhi
History
History of ancient world to ca. 499
Human remains (Archaeology)
Social archaeology
Social archaeology
Adaptation (Biology)
Human growth.
Life spans (Biology)
930.1 AGA
