Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia / edited by Marc Oxenham, Nancy Tayles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oxenham, Marc.

Tayles, N. G. (Nancy G.)

Series:

Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 43.

Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropometry--Southeast Asia.

Anthropometry.

Ethnoarchaeology--Southeast Asia.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Human remains (Archaeology)--Southeast Asia.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Prehistoric peoples--Southeast Asia.

Prehistoric peoples.

Prehistoric peoples--Diseases--Southeast Asia.

Diseases.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia is the first book to examine directly the biology and lives of the past people of this region. Bringing together the most active researchers in late Pleistocene/Holocene Southeast Asian human osteology, the book deals with two major approaches to studying human skeletal remains. Using analysis of the physical appearance of the region's past peoples, the first section explores such issues as the first peopling of the region, the evidence for subsequent migratory patterns (particularly between Southeast and Northeast Asia) and counter arguments centring on in situ micro-evolutionary change. The second section reconstructs the health of these same people in the context of major economic and demographic changes over time, including those changes caused by the adoption or intensification of agriculture. Written for archaeologists, bioarchaeologists and biological anthropologists, it is a fascinating insight into the bioarchaeology of this important region.

Contents:

Foreword: Emerging frontiers in the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia / Clark Spencer Larsen xi

1 Introduction: Southeast Asian bioarchaeology past and present / Nancy Tayles, Marc Oxenham 1

Part I Morphological diversity, evolution and population relationships 31

2 The population history of Southeast Asia viewed from morphometric analyses of human skeletal and dental remains / Hirofumi Matsumura 33

3 A multivariate craniometric study of the prehistoric and modern inhabitants of Southeast Asia, East Asia and surrounding regions: a human kaleidoscope? / Michael Pietrusewsky 59

4 Interpretation of craniofacial variation and diversification of East and Southeast Asians / Tsunehiko Hanihara 91

5 New perspectives on the peopling of Southeast and East Asia during the late upper Pleistocene / Fabrice Demeter 112

6 Human variation and evolution in Holocene Peninsular Malaysia / David Bulbeck, Adam Lauer 133

7 Dentition of the Batak people of Palawan Island, the Philippines: Southeast Asian Negrito origins / Christy G. Turner II, James F. Eder 172

Part II Health, disease and quality of life 189

8 Subsistence change and dental health in the people of Non Nok Tha, northeast Thailand / Michele Toomay Douglas 191

9 Human biology from the bronze age to the iron age in the Mun River valley of northeast Thailand / Kate Domett, Nancy Tayles 220

10 Palaeodietary change among pre-state metal age societies in northeast Thailand: a study using bone stable isotopes / Christopher A. King, Lynette Norr 241

11 The oral health consequences of the adoption and intensification of agriculture in Southeast Asia / Marc Oxenham, Nguyen Lan Cuong, Nguyen Kim Thuy 263

12 Cranial lesions on the late Pleistocene Indonesian Homo erectus Ngandong 7 / Etty Indriati 290

13 'The predators within': investigating the relationship between malaria and health in the prehistoric Pacific Islands / Hallie R. Buckley 309

14 Synthesising Southeast Asian population history and palaeohealth / Marc Oxenham, Nancy Tayles 335.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521825806

OCLC:

60418261

Publisher Number:

9780521825801