Osteoarchaeology, Biological Anthropology
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Death as a Process: The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral [Paperback]
J. Pearce (Editor); J. Weekes (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785703232
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in funerary Archaeology
Volume: 12
The study of funerary practice has become one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of Roman archaeology in recent decades. This volume draws on large-scale fieldwork from across Europe, methodological advances and conceptual innovatio... .... Learn More -
Bioarchaeology of Ancient Northern Vietnam (British Archaeological Reports International Series) [Paperback]
Marc Fredrick Oxenham (Author)
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ISBN: 9781407324210
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2781
This volume represents the first major bioarchaeological investigation of human health and behaviour in ancient northern Vietnam. Using dental and skeletal samples excavated by Vietnamese archaeologists from the 1960s through to 1990s, this study ... .... Learn More -
Holocene Foragers of North India: The Bioarchaeology of Mesolithic Damdama [Paperback]
John R. Lukacs (Author); Jagannath Pal (Author)
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ISBN: 9781407314525
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2783
A fresh and innovative approach to the skeletal biology of prehistoric South Asians is presented in this volume. It is the first comprehensive bioarchaeological study of an early Holocene human skeletal series from the Gangetic Plain of North Indi... .... Learn More -
St Marylebone’s Paddington Street North Burial Ground:: Excavations at Paddington Street, London W1, 2012–13 [Paperback]
Michael Henderson (Author); Adrian Miles (Author); Don Walker (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9781907586385
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
During the 18th century the expansion of the wealthy London parish of St Marylebone led to the development of two additional graveyards to relieve pressure on the church and churchyard on Marylebone High Street. The latest of these, on the north s... .... Learn More -
Archaeodiet in the Greek World: Dietary Reconstruction from Stable Isotope Analysis [Paperback]
Anastasia Papathanasiou (Editor); Michael P. Richards (Editor); Sherry C. Fox (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780876615492
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Hesperia Supplement
Volume: 49
The analysis of stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen in bone collagen provides a powerful tool for reconstructing past diets, since it provides the only direct evidence of the foods that were actually consumed. The chapters that comprise t... .... Learn More -
Trends in Biological Anthropology 1 [Paperback]
Karina Gerdau-Radonić (Editor); Kathleen McSweeney (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781782978367
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This first volume in the series Trends in Biological Anthropology presents 11 papers. The study of modern baboons as proxies to understand extinct hominin species’ diet and the interpretation of skeletal degenerative joint disease... .... Learn More -
Death embodied: Archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse [Paperback]
Zoë L. Devlin (Editor); Emma-Jayne Graham (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781782979432
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Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Volume: 9
In April 1485, a marble sarcophagus was found on the outskirts of Rome. It contained the remains of a young Roman woman so well-preserved that she appeared to have only just died and the sarcophagus was placed on public view, attr... .... Learn More -
The upper Walbrook valley cemetery of Roman London [Hardback]
Chiz Harward (Author); Natasha Powers (Author); Sadie Watson (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781907586255
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Volume: 69
Six excavations (1987–2007) at Finsbury Circus on the north side of the City of London uncovered over 130 Romano-British burials, part of the upper Walbrook cemetery, to the west of the better-known ‘northern’ cemetery (around Bishopsgate). Set w... .... Learn More -
Hiérarchie et fiabilité des liaisons ostéologiques (par symétrie et par contiguïté articulaire) dans l’étude des sépultures anciennes [Paperback]
Núria Villena i Mota (Author)
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ISBN: 9781407313467
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2697
This is an experimental study of refitting individual bones by osteoscopic analysis. This included examining 20 bilaterally symmetrical pairs and 14 contiguous articulations. More than 800 tests, each one based upon 70 bones, were carried out, est... .... Learn More -
Past Bodies: Body-Centered Research in Archaeology [Paperback]
Dusan Boric (Author); John Robb (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781782975427
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Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Even when dealing with skeletal remains archaeologists routinely reduce them to long lists of figures and attributes. Such a fragmentation o... .... Learn More
