Man Bac : the excavation of a neolithic site in Northern Vietnam : the biology / edited by Mar F. Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura and Nguyen Kim Dung.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oxenham, Marc F., editor.

Series:

Terra Australis ; 33.

Terra Australis ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Human remains (Archaeology).

Neolithic period.

Vietnam.

Red River Delta (Vietnam).

Màn Bạc Site (Vietnam).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Canberra : ANU Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The site of Man Bac in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, one of the most meticulously excavated and carefully analysed of Southeast Asian archaeological sites in the past few years, is emerging as a key site in the region. This book carefully analyses the human and animal remains and puts them into context. The authors describe in detail the health status, the unusual demographic profile and the interestingly divergent affinities of the cemetery population, and discuss their meaning, particularly in association with evidence for the use of marine and terrestrial animal resources; they argue convincingly that the site documents a time when the face of the region’s population was undergoing a fundamental shift, associated with a changing economic subsistence base. Physical anthropologists and archaeologists have argued for years over the timeline, the manner and the very nature of Southeast Asian population history, and this book is essential reading in this debate. Two supporting appendices describe the individual remains in detail.

Contents:

Preliminary; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Figures; Tables; 1. Introduction: Man Bac Biological Research Objectives; 2. The Demographic Profile of the Man Bac Cemetery Sample; 3. Quantitative Cranio-Morphology at Man Bac; 4. Qualitative Cranio-Morphology at Man Bac; 5. Quantitative and Qualitative Dental-Morphology at Man Bac; 6. Quantitative Limb Bone-Morphology at Man Bac; 7. Palaeohealth at Man Bac; 8. Mitochondrial DNA of Human Remains at Man Bac; 9. Faunal Remains at Man Bac; 10. Fish Remains at Man Bac; 11. Man Bac: Regional, Cultural and Temporal Context

Appendix 1. Man Bac Burial DescriptionsAppendix 2. The Man Bac Burial Pottery - An Illustrated Corpus of the Whole Vessels from the Burials in Cultural Unit III.; Appendix 3. Individual Descriptions of Human Skeletal Remains at Man Bac: 2005 and 2007 Series

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-921862-22-X