Beschreibung:
This book examines how biocultural information can be explored using skeletal evidence gained from studies in a wide range of subdisciplines.
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction Holger Schutkowski; 2. Historic dimensions to the study of human populations Don Brothwell; 3. Forensic anthropology serving justice Sue Black; 4. Biological measures of the standard of living Richard H. Steckel; 5. Ecology, culture and disease in past human populations Donald J. Ortner and Holger Schutkowski; 6. The fossil evidence of seasonality and environmental change Gabriele A. Macho; 7. Thoughts for food - evidence and meaning of past dietary habits Holger Schutkowski; 8. Ancient proteins: what remains to be detected? Matthew Collins, Enrico Cappellini, Michael Buckley, Kirsty E. H. Penkman, Rebecca C. Griffin and Hannah E. Koon; 9. Enamel traces of early lifetime events Louise Humphrey; 10. Using DNA to investigate the human past Beth Shapiro, M. Thomas Gilbert and Ian Barnes; 11. Isotopes and human migration: case studies in biogeochemistry T. Douglas Price; 12. From bodies to bones and back: theory and human bioarchaeology Kirsi Lorentz.