Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands /

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Frontiers and territorial borders are places of contested power where societies collide, interact, and interconnect. Using bioanthropological case studies from around the world, this volume explores how people in the past created, maintained, or changed their identities while living on the edge betw...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Larsen, Clark Spencer (writer of foreword.), Martin, Debra L. (Professor of Biological Anthropology) (Editor ), Tica, Cristina I. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Borderlands > History.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Human remains (Archaeology)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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? Zoga 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.

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