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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: backbone of Europe
    sub title: health, diet, work and violence over two millennia
  name:
    name part: Steckel, Richard H. (Richard Hall)
    name part: 1944-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Larsen, Clark Spencer
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Roberts, Charlotte A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Baten, Joerg
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
  abstract: Using human skeletal remains, this volume traces health, workload and violence in the European population over the past 2,000 years. Health was surprisingly good for people who lived during the early medieval period. The Plague of Justinian of the 6th century was ultimately beneficial for health because the smaller population had relatively more resources that contributed to better living conditions. Increasing population density and inequality in the following centuries imposed an unhealthy diet, poor in protein, on the European population. With the onset of the Little Ice Age in the late Middle Ages, a further health decline ensued, which was not reversed until the nineteenth century. While some aspects of health declined, other attributes improved. During the early modern period, interpersonal violence (outside of warfare) declined possibly because stronger states and institutions were able to enforce compromise and cooperation. European health over the past two millennia was hence multifaceted in nature.
  table of contents: The European History of Health Project : introduction to goals, materials, and methods / Richard H. Steckel, Clark Spencer Larsen, Charlotte A. Roberts, and Joerg Baten -- Contextual dimensions of health and lifestyle : isotopes, diet, migration, and the archaeological and historical records / Rimantas Jankauskas and Gisela Grupe -- Measuring community health using skeletal remains : a health index for Europe / Richard H. Steckel and Anna Kjellström -- The history of European oral health : evidence from dental caries and antemortem tooth loss / Ursula Witwer-Backofen and Felix Engel -- Proliferative periosteal reactions : assessment of trends in Europe over the past two millennia / Carina Marques, Vitor Matos, and Nicholas J. Meinzer -- Growth disruption in children : linear enamel hypoplasias / Zsolt Bereczki, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Antonia Marcsik, Nicholas J. Meinzer, and Joerg Baten -- History of anemia and related nutritional deficiencies : evidence from cranial porosities / Anastasia Papathanasiou, Nicholas J. Meinzer, Kimberly D. Williams, and Clark Spencer Larsen -- Agricultural specialization, urbanization, workload and stature / Nicholas J. Meinzer, Richard H. Steckel, and Joerg Baten -- History of degenerative joint disease in people across Europe : bioarchaeological inferences about lifestyle and activity from osteoarthritis and vertebral osteophytosis / Kimberly D. Williams, Nicholas J. Meinzer, and Clark Spencer Larsen -- The history of violence in Europe : evidence from cranial and postcranial bone trauma / Joerg Baten and Richard H. Steckel -- The developmental origins of health and disease : early life health conditions and adult age at death in Europe / Charlotte A. Roberts and Richard H. Steckel -- Climate and health : Europe from the pre-Middle Ages to the nineteenth century / Richard H. Steckel and Felix Engel -- Multidimensional patterns of European health, work, and violence over the past two millennia / Joerg Baten, Richard H. Steckel, Clark …
  note: edited by Richard H. Steckel, Clark Spencer Larsen, Charlotte A. Roberts, Joerg Baten.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Human remains (Archaeology)
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Analysis
  subject:
    topic: Human skeleton
    topic: Analysis
  subject:
    topic: Paleopathology
  subject:
    topic: Social ecology
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  classification: CC79.5.H85 B22 2019
  classification: 930.1094
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology
  identifier: 9781108421959
  identifier: 1108421954
  identifier: 2018021293
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180828
    record change date: 20190718163230.0
    record identifier: in00004059914