Bioarchaeology: interpreting behavior from the human skeleton

by Larsen, Clark Spencer

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Full title :Bioarchaeology : interpreting behavior from the human skeleton / Clark Spencer Larsen ...

Edition Statements

Publication Date:cop. 2015.
Edition:2nd edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:cop. 2015.

The Physical Object

Description:1 vol. (XVI-608 p.) : : ill. ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780521838696, 052183869X, 9780521547482, 0521547482
oclc:ocn923836139
LC Classification:CC77.B8
Dewey Decimal:930.1

Preface to the Second Edition ; Preface to the First Edition ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Stress and deprivation during growth and development and adulthood ; 3. Exposure to infectious pathogens ; 4. Injury and violence ; 5. Activity patterns. 1, Articular degenerative conditions and musculoskeletal modifications ; 6. Activity patterns. 2, Structural adaptation ; 7. Masticatory and nonmasticatory functions : craniofacial adaptation to mechanical loading ; 8. Isotopic and elemental signatures of diet, nutrition, and life history ; 9. Biological distance and historical dimensions of skeletal variation ; 10. Bioarchaeological paleodemography : interpreting age-at-death structures ; 11. Bioarchaeology : skeletons in context ; References ; Index.