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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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| 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.