With an unparalleled art programme, "Our Origins" is an accessible, up-to-date text that focuses on anthropology's big questions and the scientific process. A leader in the field and an experienced teacher, Clark Larsen focuses not on encyclopedic details but on the "big picture", getting students to see and think like anthropologists. Larsen ...
Human remains recovered from archaeological sites can help us interpret lifetime events such as disease, physiological stress, injury and violent death, physical activity, tooth use, diet and demographic history of once-living populations. This is the first comprehensive synthesis of the emerging field of bioarchaeology. A central theme is the ...
Anthropologists offer a new perspective on the archaeology of the US intermountain west by describing their research on three newly discovered assemblages of ancient human remains in Nevada, Oregon, and Utah that have more than doubled the available sample of human remains from the vast and important region of the continent. The skeletons all ...
The dead tell no tales. Or do they? In this book, Clark Spencer Larsen shows that the dead can speak to us - about their lives, and ours - through the insights of bioarchaeology, which reconstructs the lives and lifestyles of past peoples based on the study of skeletal remains. The human skeleton is a storehouse of information. It records the ...
Twenty years ago Mark Nathan Cohen coedited a collection of essays that set a new standard in using paleopathology to identify trends in health associated with changes in prehistoric technology, economy, demography, and political centralization. "Ancient Health" expands and celebrates that work. Confirming earlier conclusions that human health ...
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. The human skeleton is an amazing storehouse of ...
These important essays address the biological consequences of the arrival of Europeans in the New World and on the lifeways of native populations following contact in the late 16th century. Moving away from monocausal explanations of population change, they maintain that disease should be viewed as only a facet of a complex problem and that issues ...
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. The human skeleton is an amazing storehouse of ...
Description: Good. No dust jacket. articles on infectious disease in Bronze Age Vietnam, health of Neolithic Greek population, and much more; mod cover wear. Includes: illustrations, bibliography. pages 359-482 of Vol 126 read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: American Museum of Natural History, New York
Date Published: 1987
Description: Softcover. 6 3/4 x 10. 46 pages. Illustrated in black & white. A touch of fading to covers. Light wear to corners. Very good+. Clean, tight and bright. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The American Museum of Natural History
Date Published: 2002
Description: Fine. No Jacket. Monograph. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 104pp. SC lt. green w/blk.; fine condition; clean, tight pgs. Excavation of burial mounds. This monograph is the 6th in the series titled "The Anthropology of St. Catherines Island". AMNH Anthropological papers # 84: 22 figures, 27 tables. Issued July 24, 2002. read more
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Anthropology of the Desert West: Essays in Honor of Jesse D. Jennings
by
Carol J Condie (Editor), Don D Fowler (Editor), Jesse David Jennings (Photographer)
