Bioarchaeology : interpreting behavior from the human skeleton /

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 discipline h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larsen, Clark Spencer (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Stress and deprivation during growth and development and adulthood
  • 3. Exposure to infectious pathogens
  • 4. Injury and violence
  • 5. Activity patterns. 1, Articular degenerative conditions and musculoskeletal modifications
  • 6. Activity patterns. 2, Structural adaptation
  • 7. Masticatory and nonmasticatory functions : craniofacial adaptation to mechanical loading
  • 8. Isotopic and elemental signatures of diet, nutrition, and life history
  • 9. Biological distance and historical dimensions of skeletal variation
  • 10. Bioarchaeological paleodemography : interpreting age-at-death structures
  • 11. Bioarchaeology : skeletons in context
  • References
  • Index.