Osteoarchaeology, Biological Anthropology

ISBN: 9781872561004
Published by : Sia Publishing
This examination of the predynastic skeletal remains from Naga-ed-Der is a revised 1982 Berkeley thesis. Excavated around the turn of the century, the bones are now inevitably dispersed and partly destroyed. What survives is here subjected to mod... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780943414713
Published by : Missouri Archaeological Society
The aim of this well-presented study is to provide a tool with which archaeologists and students can identify and analyse the bones of mammals found on sites in North America. It also stresses the value and importance of such studies for our u... .... Learn More

Published by : PACT-Belgium
22 papers on medicine and disease in the ancient Mediterranean world, from the 1990 symposium at Ravello.
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ISBN: 9781407305264
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
An in-depth study of lesions of muscle insertion sites on bone (enthesopathies) in recent and fossilised human skeletons. The work contributes to the field of anthropology in three ways. The author presents a new method of scoring enthesopathie... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521031226
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Uniquely among early medieval northern Europeans the Anglo-Saxons appear from early times to have written original medical texts in Old English, as well as made copies in Latin. Using these valuable sources, this study explains the rational bas... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521332576
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: EV-BIOL
Recent developments in molecular and statistical methods have made it possible to identify the genetic basis of any biological trait and have given rise to spectacular advances in the study of human disease. This book provides an overview of th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521336604
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: EV-BIOL
Recent developments in molecular and statistical methods have made it possible to identify the genetic basis of any biological trait and have given rise to spectacular advances in the study of human disease. This book provides an overview of th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783774926462
Published by : Dr Rudolf Habelt GmbH
Series: upa
Volume: 20
This is a study of attitudes to cannibalism, assumed to have been a feature of European prehistoric society by scholars from the Middle Ages to the modern day. The author takes a comparative approach, discussing attitudes to Mesoamerican and e... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300062892
Published by : Yale University Press
A lucid and highly accessible examination of the origins and development of the use of insanity claims in defense trials in Eighteenth century England. Subtitled "Madness and Mad-Doctcrs in the English Court", Eigen follows in particular the in... .... Learn More