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Osteobiographies : the discovery, interpretation and repatriation of human remains / Susan Pfeiffer.
Penn Museum Library CC79.5.H85 P53 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pfeiffer, Susan, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human remains (Archaeology).
- Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 213 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2022]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Osteobiography: A way to see past lives
- What is a bioarchaeologist?
- What is an osteobiography?
- The tools of the trade
- Terms, labels and designations
- References
- 2. Rest in peace
- Prospect Hill
- Snake Hill
- Historic graves in broader context
- 3. Framework for Osteobiographies: Lower Great Lakes
- Prologue
- History's story line
- Archaeology's story line
- The contemporary context
- Summary
- 4. Mobile people making a go of it
- So little to go on
- The Hind Site
- A child's distinctive skeleton
- Looking back at the Hind Site
- 5. We enter the afterlife together
- Background to the story
- The excavation of ossuaries
- Ossuary osteobiographies
- Evidence of a disease that wasn't supposed to be there
- Ossuary communities: Collective osteobiographies
- Concluding remarks
- 6. Collaboration and repatriation
- Construction of a collaborative framework
- Preliminary steps
- Meanwhile, other developments
- Preparing for repatriation
- Repatriation and after
- Things to not do
- 7. Framework for osteobiographies: Eastern and Southern Africa
- The lure of Africa
- Modern humans: What role for Africa?
- Osteobiographies of past Africans
- 8. Lake Turkana: An intriguing osteobiography
- The Lake Turkana Basin
- The pillar sites
- The still incomplete picture
- 9. Southern African foragers: Geographical and historical context
- The remarkable shrinking forager
- A large number of small people
- 10. Southern African foragers: Life histories of past communities
- Approaching the question of body size
- 11. Interpersonal violence among Southern African foragers
- Interpretive approaches to violent acts in the distant past
- The skeletal evidence
- What to make of it all?
- Bearing witness
- 12. Repatriation in an African context
- Unnamed persons
- Named persons
- 13. Bones and objects of contention
- The world of objects
- The world of bones
- Legacy collections
- Beyond museums
- The way forward
- References.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0128238801
- 9780128238806
- OCLC:
- 1245656857
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