Skeletons in Our Closet : Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology /

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The dead tell no tales. Or do they? In this fascinating book, Clark Spencer Larsen shows that the dead can speak to us--about their lives, and ours--through the remarkable insights of bioarchaeology, which reconstructs the lives and lifestyles of past peoples based on the study of skeletal remains....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Larsen, Clark Spencer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Human geography.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human remains (Archaeology).
Human skeleton > Analysis.
Population > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Armelagos, George.
British colonization.
Brooks, Sheilagh.
Goodman, Alan.
Hutchinson, Dale.
Irene period.
Kelly, Robert.
Lorenz, Joseph.
Mayans (Yucatan).
Mississippian period.
Numic expansion hypothesis.
Ruff, Christopher.
Schoeninger, Margaret.
Spanish colonization.
Teaford, Mark.
agriculture.
barley.
canines.
climate.
colonization.
diabetes.
domestication: of animals.
gingivitis.
hypoplasias.
life expectancy.
masticatory complex.
mortality.
obesity.
periosteal reactions.
protein.
sanitation.
tuberculosis.
urbanization.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. Tales from the Dead: What Bones Tell Us about Our Past, and Why We Should Know
  • CHAPTER 1. The Lives and Lifestyles of Ancient Hunter-Gatherers: "Poor, nasty, brutish and short" in the American Great Basin
  • CHAPTER 2. Skeletons from Stillwater: Good Times and Bad Times
  • CHAPTER 3. From Foraging to Farming: A Regional Perspective
  • CHAPTER 4. Going Global: Bioarchaeology of the Foraging-to-Farming Transition
  • CHAPTER 5. Europeans Arrive: Circumstances and Settings for Native Population Collapse in the Americas
  • CHAPTER 6. Bioarchaeology of Population Decline and Extinction in Spanish Florida
  • CHAPTER 7. Sot-Weed to Sangamo: Life and Death in Frontier North America
  • CHAPTER 8. On to Sangamo Country: Colonizing the Midwest
  • CHAPTER 9. Life's Transitions: The Bioarchaeological Past
  • INDEX

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