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Bones of complexity : bioarchaeological case studies of social organization and skeletal biology /

This volume examines the various interrelationships between social structures, skeletal biology, and health outcomes in antiquity. Bringing together studies by physical anthropologists, archaeologists, and economists, the volume attempts to gain a better understanding of the potential effects of soc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Klaus, Haagen D. (Editor ), Harvey, Amanda R. (Editor ), Cohen, Mark Nathan (Editor ), Larsen, Clark Spencer (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]
Colección:Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Human biology in ancient complex societies: some concepts for bioarchaeology / Haagen D. Klaus, Amanda R. Harvey, and Mark N. Cohen
  • Growth, stature, and social organization
  • A bone to pick: using height inequality to test competing hypotheses about political power / Carles Boix and Frances Rosenbluth
  • Stature at Tikal revisited / Lori E. Wright and Mario A. Vásquez
  • Spytihn?v i (ce 875-915), Duke of Bohemia: an osteobiographic perspective on social status and stature
  • In the emerging Czech State / Marshall Joseph Becker
  • Complexities of sex and gender
  • Skeletal morphology and social structure in ancient Egypt: hierarchy, gender, body shape, and limb
  • Proportion (4000-1900 bc) / Sonia Zakrzewski
  • Mycenaean hierarchy and gender roles: diet and health inequalities in late bronze age Pylos, Greece / Lynne A. Schepartz, Sharon R. Stocker, Jack L. Davis, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Sari Miller-Antonio, Joanne M.A Murphy, Michael Richards, and Evangelia Malapani
  • Health status and burial status in early China / Ekaterina Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, and Fan Wenquan
  • Skeletons in settings of emergent complexity and stratified societies
  • The bioarchaeology of early social complexity in bronze age Spain: skeletal biology and mortuary
  • Patterns in the el argar culture / Sylvia A. Jim¿nez-Brobeil and María G. Roca
  • The Pigi Athinas Tumuli Cemetery of Macedonian Olympus: burial customs and the bioarchaeology of social structures at the dawn of the late bronze age, Central Macedonia, Greece / Paraskevi Tritsaroli
  • A hierarchy of values: the bioarchaeology of order, complexity, health, and trauma at Harappa / Gwen Robbins Schug
  • Hopewell hierarchy or heterarchy? The skeleton at the feast / Della Collins Cook, Ruth A. Brinker, Robin Moser Knabel, and Ellen Salter-Pedersen
  • Status-based differences in health in the late prehistoric East Tennessee / Tracy K. Betsinger
  • Center and satellite: settlement hierarchy and diet on the late prehistoric Mississippi Delta / Nancy A. Ross-Stallings
  • Across a spectrum of inequality: hierarchy, health, and culturally sanctioned violence in the precontact U.S. Southwest / Ryan P. Harrod, Debra L. Martin, and Misty Fields
  • Hierarchy and urbanism in Pre-Columbian Central Mexico: an initial assessment of biological stress and social structure at Teotihaucan and Monte Alban / Rebecca Storey, Lourdes Márquez Morfín, and Luis Fernando Núñez
  • Middle Sicán Mortuary archaeology, skeletal biology, and genetic structures in late pre-hispanic South America / Haagen D. Klaus, Izumi Shimada, Ken-ichi Shinoda, and Sarah Muno
  • Bioarchaeology and social complexity: departing reflections and future directions / Haagen D. Klaus, Mark Nathan Cohen, Marie Elaine Danforth, and Amanda R. Harvey.