Bioarchaeology of East Asia : movement, contact, health / edited by Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pechenkina, Ekaterina A. (Ekaterina Alexandrovna)

Oxenham, Marc.

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)--East Asia.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Excavations (Archaeology)--East Asia.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Human skeleton--Analysis.

Human skeleton.

Paleopathology--East Asia.

Paleopathology.

Paleoanthropology--East Asia.

Paleoanthropology.

East Asia--Antiquities.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (535 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines current understandings of human population histories, adaptations, dietary changes, and health variations within the geographical context of ancient east Asia.

Contents:

1. Research on human skeletal biology in East Asia: a historical overview / Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham

2. Human ecology in continental and insular East Asia / Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham

Part 1: Biological indicators of population histories in East Asia

3. The population history of China and Mongolia from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period (2500 BC-AD 1500) / Christine Lee

4. Mongolian origins and cranio-morphometric variability: Neolithic to Mongolian Period / Tumen Dashtseveg

5. A nonmetric comparative study of past and contemporary Mongolian and Northeast Asian crania / Erdene Myagmar

6. Tuberculosis and population movement across the Sea of Japan from the Neolithic Period to the Eneolithic / Takao Suzuki

7. Biological connections across the Sea of Japan: a multivariate comparison of ancient and more modern crania from Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia / Michael Pietrusewsky

8. Population dispersal from East Asia into Southeast Asia: evidence from cranial and dental morphology / Hirofumi Matsumura and Marc Oxenham. Part II. Community health. 9. Conflict and trauma among nomadic pastoralists on China's northern frontier / Jacqueline T. Eng and Zhang Quanchao

10. Stresses of life: a preliminary study of degenerative joint disease and dental health among ancient populations of Inner Asia / Michelle L. Machicek and Jeremy J. Beach

11. Dental wear and oral health as indicators of diet among the early Qin People: a case study from the Xishan site, Gansu Province / Wei Miao, Wang Tao, Zhao Congcang, Liu Wu, and Wang Changsui

12. Yangshao oral health from West to East: effects of increasing complexity and contacts with neighbors / Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, Fan Wenquan, Wei Dong, and Zhang Quanchao

13. Life on the frontier: the paleopathology of human remains from the Chinese Early Imperial Taojiazhai Mortuary site / Zhang Jinglei

14. Bioarchaeological perspectives on systemic stress during the agricultural transition in prehistoric Japan / Daniel H. Temple and Clark Spencer Larsen

15. Change in the linear growth of long bones with the adoption of wet-rice agriculture in Japan / Kenji Okazaki

16. Trauma and infectious disease in Northern Japan: Okhotsk and Jomon / Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura, and Allison Drake

17. A paleohealth assessment of the Shih-San-Hang site from Iron Age Taiwan / Liu Chin-Hsin, John Krigbaum, Tsang Cheng-Hwa, and Liu Yi-Chang

18. Trajectories of health in early farming communities of East Asia / Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, and Fan Wenquan

19. East Asian bioarchaeology: major trends in a temporally, genetically, and eco-culturally diverse region / Marc Oxenham and Kate Pechenkina.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-4626-2

0-8130-4501-0

OCLC:

848018032