Social Bioarchaeology
ISBN: 9781444337679 | 144433767X
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 2/14/2011
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Social Bioarchaeology introduces the exciting and growing biosocial approach in archaeology that challenges the traditional methods of analyzing and interpreting human skeletal remains. Agarwal, Glencross and the experts assembled in this volume outline the essential components of this research, focusing on the dynamic interactions between humans and their larger social, cultural and physical environments, and how these analyses increase our understanding of human adaptation. The authors draw upon studies from the Americas, Europe, and the Midd... MORE
| List of Tables and Figures | |
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Series Editors' Preface | |
| Building a Social Bioarchaeology | |
| Materials and Meaning: The Nature of Skeletal Samples: | |
| The Origins of Biocultural Dimensions in Bioarchaeology | |
| Partnerships, Pitfalls, and Ethical Concerns in International Bioarchaeology | |
| The Formation of Mortuary Deposits: Implications for Unders... MORE | |
| Representativeness and Bias in Archaeological Skeletal Samples | |
| Social Identity: Bioarchaeology of Sex, Gender, Ethnicity, and Disability: | |
| Sex and Gender in Bioarchaeological Research: Theory, Method, and Interpretation | |
| Population Migration, Variation, and Identity: An Islamic Population in Iberia | |
| Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Colonial New York: A Bioarchaeological Study of the New York African Burial Ground | |
| The Bioarchaeology of Leprosy and Tuberculosis: A Comparative Study of Perceptions, Stigma, Diagnosis, and Treatment | |
| Growth and Aging: The Life Course of Health and Disease: | |
| Towards a Social Bioarchaeology of Age | |
| It is Not Carved in Bone: Development and Plasticity of the Aged Skeleton | |
| The Bioarchaeological Investigation of Children and Childhood | |
| Moving from the Canary in the Coalmine: Modeling Childhood in Bahrain | |
| Skeletal Injury Across the Life Course: Towards Understanding Social Agency | |
| Diet and Dental Health through the Life Course in Roman Italy | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Sabrina C. Agarwal is an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkley
Bonnie Glencross is Assistant Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, at Wilfrid Laurier University, and held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship at the
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