The bioarchaeology of individuals / edited by Ann L.W. Stodder and Ann M. Palkovich ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stodder, Ann Lucy Wiener.

Palkovich, Ann M.

Larsen, Clark Spencer.

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).

Persons--History.

Persons.

Biography.

Bones--Social aspects--History.

Bones.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Historic sites.

Social archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Bronze Age Thailand to Viking Iceland, from an Egyptian oasis to a family farm in Canada, The Bioarchaeology of Individuals invites readers to unearth the daily lives of people throughout history. Covering a span of more than four thousand years of human history and focusing on individuals who lived between 3200 BC and the nineteenth century, the essays in this book examine the lives of nomads, warriors, artisans, farmers, and healers. The contributors employ a wide range of tools, including traditional macroscopic skeletal analysis, bone chemistry, ancient DNA, grave cont

Contents:

Osteobiography and Bioarchaeology / Ann L. W. Stodder and Ann M. Palkovich

Part 1. Ancestors and Descendants

The Magician : An Ancestral Hopi Leader / Jill E. Neitzel

The Axed Man of Mosfell : Skeletal Evidence of a Viking Age Homicide, the Icelandic Sagas, and Feud / Phillip L. Walker, Jesse Byock, Jacqueline T. Eng, Jon M. Erlandson, Per Holck, Henry Schwarcz, and Davide Zori

Legendary Chamorro Strength : Skeletal Embodiment and the Boundaries of Interpretation / Gary M. Heathcote, Vincent P. Diego, Hajime Ishida, and Vincent J. Sava

Mortuary Evidence for Maya Political Resistance and Religious Syncretism in Colonial Belize / Gabriel D. Wrobel

Part 2. Ancient Travelers and "Others"

Social Marginalization among the Chiribaya : The Curandero of Yaral, Southern Peru / Maria Cecilia Lozada, Kelly J. Knudson, Rex C. Haydon, and Jane E. Buikstra

A Neolithic Nomad from Dakhleh Oasis / Jennifer L. Thompson

Lesley : A Unique Bronze Age Individual from Southeastern Arabia / Debra L. Martin and Daniel T. Potts

The "African Queen" : A Portuguese Mystery / Mary Lucas Powell, Della Collins Cook, Maia M. Langley, Susan Dale Spencer, Jennifer Raff, and Frederika Kaestle

Part 3. Craftsmen and Artisans

Sew Long? The Osteobiography of a Woman from Medieval Polis, Cyprus / Brenda J. Baker, Claire E. Terhune, and Amy Papalexandrou

A Master Artisan? Tribute to the Founder of a Teotihuacan Apartment Compound / Rebecca Storey and Randolph J. Widmer

Vulcan : Skilled Village Craftsman of Ban Chiang, Thailand / Michele Toomay Douglas and Michael Pietrusewsky

Written in Stone, Written in Bone : The Osteobiography of a Bronze Age Craftsman from Alalakh / Alexis T. Boutin

Part 4. Farm and Village

Life and Death of a Mother and Child in Nineteenth-Century Ontario, Canada / M. Anne Katzenberg and Shelley R. Saunders

Thumbprints of a Midwife : Birth and Infant Death in an Ancient Pueblo Community / Charles F. Merbs

Reading a Life : A Fourteenth-Century Ancestral Puebloan Woman / Ann M. Palkovich

From Cradle to Grave and Beyond : A Maya Life and Death / Pamela L. Geller.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-4313-1

0-8130-4274-7

OCLC:

793166734