Osteoarchaeology, Biological Anthropology

ISBN: 9781841713335
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR
Volume: 1138
This specialised and technical contribution to the debate surrounding the anatomical evolution of modern man and variations between Neanderthals and modern humans is based on the analysis of one specific jaw bone, the medial mandibular ramus, an... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841713823
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This technical study of `biological population affinities amongst Eastern Mediterranean Chalcolithic and Bronze Age humn skeletal examples' is based on the author's analysis of 686 samples from eight sites in Cyprus, Greece and Syria. Parras focus... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714127941
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
The name Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936) is well known as a giant in the world of pharmaceuticals, but most people know very little about his other philanthropic interests. This book brings to our attention the Wellcome museum that he set up... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783110178500
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
Galen is today primarily known as one of the fathers of modern medicine yet, as this study shows, his writings are also important for the information they contain about Roman society during the 2nd century AD. Schlange-Schöningen's thesis presents... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782251005119
Published by : Les Belles Lettres
A Greek version with facing-page French translation of Hippocrates' maladie sacrée with notes and commentary. The introduction draws attention to contemporary ideas about the treatment of illness and disease and medical matters in general. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783525530603
Published by : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
In late 2001 a conference was held in Fribourg which focused on the evidence for, and experience of, birth and infancy in the ancient world. These twenty-four papers form the proceedings and cover material from Egypt and the Near East, the Greek a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789172093133
Published by : Riksantikvarieämbetet
Arteriosclerosis and gout are two of the "welfare diseases" indicated in the skeletons from the Dominican monastery cemetery in Åhus, southern Sweden. The interesting osteological material from this site contradicts the popular notion of the Mi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813530277
Published by : Rutland Local History & Record Society
Volume: 2002
Until twenty years ago we had no idea which of our genes came from our father and which came from our mother. We took it for granted that our genes expressed themselves identically and that there was a 50/50 chance that they came from either pa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841714271
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Archaeopress
Volume: 1046
Thirteen papers given at a session of the annual conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group held at the University of Birmingham on 20th December 1998. The papers cover a variety of subjects in cluding palaeopathology, dentistry, disease, ... .... Learn More