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020			_a9781444337679
028			_a:Segment Book Distributors _b:22, Prakash Deep 1st Floor Delhi Medical Association Road Daryaganj New Delhi _c:59443 _d:27/11/2019
082			_a930.1 AGA
100			_aAgarwal, Sabrina C
245			_aSocial Bioarchaeology _c/ Sabrina C Agarwal
260			_aHoboken _b: John Wiley & Sons, _c2011.
300			_axix, 449p. _c24cm.
365			_b3879
505			_a 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.
520			_aIllustrates 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.
650			_aHistory
650			_aHistory of ancient world to ca. 499
650			_aHuman remains (Archaeology)
650			_aSocial archaeology
650			_aSocial archaeology
650			_aAdaptation (Biology)
650			_aHuman growth.
650			_aLife spans (Biology)
700			_aAgarwal, Sabrina C
700			_aGlencross, Bonnie A.
942			_cBOOK