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Trends in Biological Anthropology 2 -

Trends in Biological Anthropology 2

Buch | Softcover
112 Seiten
2018
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78570-620-2 (ISBN)
CHF 87,25 inkl. MwSt
Combined papers from two conferences of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology held in 2014 and 2015. Papers look at many aspects of the archaeological application of the study of human bone, DNA and related areas including comparative faunal evidence.
The articles included in this volume were all presented at the 15th annual British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) conference held at the University of York on the 13th and 15th of September 2013. Ten papers are presented, on a range of topics and themes, including that of ‘Constructing Identities: Ethnicity and Migration’ exploring theoretical approaches to the multiple identities of the body and multidisciplinary approaches to investigating the African origin of African American communities in parts of South America. Papers exploring the theme ‘Treatment of the Body: Understanding and Portrayals’ focus on the visibility of prehistoric burial practice in Britain and the Levant (the ‘invisible dead’), and evidence for diversity in late medieval Christian burial practice in Taunton, Somerset. Three papers are incorporated in the theme ‘Investigating Lifeways: Diets, Disease and Occupations’, focusing on ancient DNA to investigate Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 18th century mummies from Hungary; a bioarchaeological perspective on military communities in Roman London; and a methodological approach to testing a faster method for recording past activity-patterns in skeletal remains. The final three papers of the volume have both archaeological and methodological aspects, using osteological and archaeological evidence to investigate health in Roman York; exploring ostoarchaeological sampling strategies in the presentation of data from a large-scale sieving programme of a 19th century crypt and detailing a methodological study of estimating age of non-adults.

Malin Holst is the director of York Osteoarchaeology Ltd, a commercial bioarchaeological company that carries out the excavation, analysis and reporting or publication of human skeletons from archaeological projects. She also teaches bioarchaeology at the University of York. She specialises in bioarchaeology with emphasis on osteology and palaeopathology and particular interest in weapon-related trauma from skeletal material related to battlefield sites. Her research has also focused on burial ritual, particularly on multi-period cemeteries, which often span millennia.  

List of Contributors

Introduction (Malin Holst and Michelle Alexander)

 

1. Matryoshki, Masks and Identities: Bioarchaeology and the Body

Sonia Zakrzewski

 

2. Revisiting Genetic Ancestry in African Diaspora Communities from Atlantic South America

César Fortes-Lima and Jean-Michel Dugoujon

 

3. The ‘Invisible Dead’ Project: The Database as a Work-in-Progress

Mandy Jay, Chris Scarre, Charlotte Roberts, Graham Philip, Jennie Bradbury and Douglas Davies

 

4. Diverse Burial Practices from a Late Medieval Cemetery in Somerset

Heidi Dawson-Hobbis

 

5. Whole Genome Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 18th-Century Natural Mummies from Vác, Hungary

Helen D. Donoghue, Mark Spigelman, Ildikó Pap, Ildikó Szikossy, Oona Y-C Lee, David E. Minnikin, Gurdyal S. Besra, Andrew Millard, Martin J. Sergeant, Jacqueline Z.-M. Chan, Mark J. Pallen

 

6. From Soldiers to Military Communities in Roman London: A Bioarchaeological Perspective

Rebecca Redfern

 

7. 3D Recording of Normal Entheses: A Pilot Study

Charlotte Y. Henderson

 

8. A Biocultural Assessment of Health in Roman York

Lauren McIntyre and Andrew T. Chamberlain

 

9. The Riddle of the Sands: Sieving Methodology in the Recovery of Human Remains

Don P. O’Meara

 

10. Biological Age Estimation of Non-Adult Human Skeletal Remains: Comparison of Dental Development with the Humerus, Femur and Pars Basilaris

Carla L. Burrell, Carole A.L. Davenport, Raymond J. Carpenter and James C. Ohman

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Trends in Biological Anthropology ; 2
Zusatzinfo b/w
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 210 x 297 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78570-620-9 / 1785706209
ISBN-13 978-1-78570-620-2 / 9781785706202
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