Bioarchaeology of frontiers and borderlands / edited by Cristina I. Tica and Debra L. Martin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tica, Cristina I., editor.

Martin, Debra L. (Professor of Biological Anthropology), editor.

Series:

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past. Local, regional, and global perspectives.

Florida scholarship online.

Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past. Local, regional, and global perspectives

Florida scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Borderlands--History.

Borderlands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2020.

Summary:

Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands presents a series of cases addressing how living on or interacting with the frontier can affect health and socioeconomic status. The goal is to explore how people in the past might have maintained, created, or manipulated their identity, while living in a place of liminality, stuck in between worlds. The zone of "in-betweenness," of demarcation between two or more spheres of influence, is a very dynamic and potentially violent place. This book aims to explore how different groups stuck in these zones were affected, how they interacted with the different worlds, and how they lived their lives on the "edge".

Contents:

Introduction: bioarchaeology and the study of frontiers / Cristina I. Tica and Debra L. Martin

Complexity and liminality of the frontier

Across the river: romanized "barbarians" and barbarized "Romans" on the edge of the empire. Bioarchaeology of Romania in late antiquity (third-sixth centuries ce) / Cristina I. Tica

Funerary practice and local interaction on the imperial frontier, first century AD: a case study in the ??rur Valley, Azerbaijan / Selin E. Nugent

Queering prehistory on the frontier: a bioarchaeological investigation of gender in Mierzanowice communities of the early Bronze Age / Mark P. Toussaint

Movement across borders

Isotopes, migration, and sex: investigating the mobility of Roman Egypt's frontier inhabitants / Amanda T. Groff and Tosha L. Dupras

Temporal and spatial biological kinship variation at Campovalano and Alfedena, Iron Age central Italy / Evan Muzzall and Alfredo Coppa

Adaptability and resilience on the frontier

Living on the border: health and identity during the colonial Egyptian New Kingdom Period in Nubia / Katie Marie Whitmore, Michele R. Buzon and Stuart Tyson Smith

Life on the northern frontier: bioarchaeological reconstructions of 11th century households in North Iceland / Gu?n? Zo¿ga and Kimmarie Murphy

Violence on the frontier

A mass grave outside the walls: the commingled assemblage from Ibida / Andrei Soficaru, Claudia Radu, and Cristina I. Tica

A line in the sand: bioarchaeological interpretations of life along the borders of the Great Basin and American Southwest / Aaron R. Woods and Ryan P. Harrod

Challenges and limitations of bioarchaeological method and theory

Mortuary practices in the first Iron Age Romanian frontier: the commingled assemblages of the M?gura Uroiului / Anna J. Osterholtz, Virginia Lucas, Claira Ralston, Andre Gonciar, and Angelica B?los

Marginalized motherhood: infant burial in 17th century Transylvania / Jonathan D. Bethard, Anna J. Osterholtz, Nyárádi Zsolt, and Andre Gonciar

Conclusion: the future of bioarchaeology and studies at the edges / Cristina I. Tica.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-68340-120-4

1-68340-102-6