Bones of complexity : bioarchaeological case studies of social organization and skeletal biology / edited by Haagen D. Klaus, Amanda R. Harvey, and Mark N. Cohen ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larsen, Clark Spencer, author of foreword.

Contributor:

Klaus, Haagen D., editor.

Harvey, Amanda R., editor.

Cohen, Mark Nathan, editor.

Project Muse.

Christine Hikawa Fund.

Series:

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology).

Human skeleton--Analysis.

Human skeleton.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Human biology in ancient complex societies: some concepts for bioarchaeology / Haagen D. Klaus, Amanda R. Harvey, and Mark N. Cohen

Growth, stature, and social organization

A bone to pick: using height inequality to test competing hypotheses about political power / Carles Boix and Frances Rosenbluth

Stature at Tikal revisited / Lori E. Wright and Mario A. Vásquez

Spytihn?v i (ce 875-915), Duke of Bohemia: an osteobiographic perspective on social status and stature

In the emerging Czech State / Marshall Joseph Becker

Complexities of sex and gender

Skeletal morphology and social structure in ancient Egypt: hierarchy, gender, body shape, and limb

Proportion (4000-1900 bc) / Sonia Zakrzewski

Mycenaean hierarchy and gender roles: diet and health inequalities in late bronze age Pylos, Greece / Lynne A. Schepartz, Sharon R. Stocker, Jack L. Davis, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Sari Miller-Antonio, Joanne M.A Murphy, Michael Richards, and Evangelia Malapani

Health status and burial status in early China / Ekaterina Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, and Fan Wenquan

Skeletons in settings of emergent complexity and stratified societies

The bioarchaeology of early social complexity in bronze age Spain: skeletal biology and mortuary

Patterns in the el argar culture / Sylvia A. Jim¿nez-Brobeil and María G. Roca

The Pigi Athinas Tumuli Cemetery of Macedonian Olympus: burial customs and the bioarchaeology of social structures at the dawn of the late bronze age, Central Macedonia, Greece / Paraskevi Tritsaroli

A hierarchy of values: the bioarchaeology of order, complexity, health, and trauma at Harappa / Gwen Robbins Schug

Hopewell hierarchy or heterarchy? The skeleton at the feast / Della Collins Cook, Ruth A. Brinker, Robin Moser Knabel, and Ellen Salter-Pedersen

Status-based differences in health in the late prehistoric East Tennessee / Tracy K. Betsinger

Center and satellite: settlement hierarchy and diet on the late prehistoric Mississippi Delta / Nancy A. Ross-Stallings

Across a spectrum of inequality: hierarchy, health, and culturally sanctioned violence in the precontact U.S. Southwest / Ryan P. Harrod, Debra L. Martin, and Misty Fields

Hierarchy and urbanism in Pre-Columbian Central Mexico: an initial assessment of biological stress and social structure at Teotihaucan and Monte Alban / Rebecca Storey, Lourdes Márquez Morfín, and Luis Fernando Núñez

Middle Sicán Mortuary archaeology, skeletal biology, and genetic structures in late pre-hispanic South America / Haagen D. Klaus, Izumi Shimada, Ken-ichi Shinoda, and Sarah Muno

Bioarchaeology and social complexity: departing reflections and future directions / Haagen D. Klaus, Mark Nathan Cohen, Marie Elaine Danforth, and Amanda R. Harvey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 20, 2017).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Bones of complexity.

ISBN:

9780813052595

0813052599

Publisher Number:

40027070260

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.