BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE HUMAN SKELETON

Libro editado por M. Anne Katzenberg y Shelley R. Saunders (2008)

Contenido:

PART I THEORY AND APPLICATION IN STUDIES OF PAST PEOPLES

1 Bioarchaeological Ethics: A Historical Perspective on the Value of Human Remains
Phillip L. Walker

2 Forensic Anthropology: Methodology and Diversity of Applications
Douglas H. Ubelaker

3 Taphonomy and the Nature of Archaeological Assemblages
Ann L. W. Stodder

PART II MORPHOLOGICAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL ANALYSES

4 Juvenile Skeletons and Growth-Related Studies
Shelley R. Saunders

5 Histomorphometry of Human Cortical Bone: Applications to Age Estimation
Alexander G. Robling and Sam D. Stout

6 Biomechanical Analyses of Archaeological Human Skeletons
Christopher B. Ruff

7 Morphometrics and Biological Anthropology in the Postgenomic Age
Benedikt Hallgr|¤msson, Miriam Leah Zelditch, Trish E. Parsons, Erika Kristensen, Nathan M. Young, and Steven K. Boyd

8 Reading Between the Lines: Dental Development and Subadult Age Assessment Using the Microstructural Growth Markers of Teeth
Charles M. FitzGerald and Jerome C. Rose

9 Dental Morphology
G. Richard Scott

PART III PREHISTORIC HEALTH AND DISEASE

10 Dental Pathology
Simon Hillson

11 Analysis and Interpretation of Skeletal Trauma
Nancy C. Lovell

12 Light and Broken Bones: Examining and Interpreting Bone Loss and Osteoporosis in Past Populations
Sabrina C. Agarwal

PART IV CHEMICAL AND GENETIC ANALYSES OF HARD TISSUES

13 Stable Isotope Analysis: A Tool for Studying Past Diet, Demography, and Life History
M. Anne Katzenberg

14 Bone Chemistry and Trace Element Analysis
James Burton

15 DNA Analysis of Archaeological Remains
Anne C. Stone

PART V QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND POPULATION STUDIES

16 Metric Analysis of Skeletal Remains: Methods and Applications
Michael Pietrusewsky

17 Nonmetric Trait Variation in the Skeleton: Abnormalities, Anomalies, and Atavisms
Shelley R. Saunders and Dori L. Rainey

18 Advances in Paleodemography
George R. Milner, James W. Wood, and Jesper L. Boldsen

19 Method and Theory in Paleodemography, with an Application to a Hunting, Fishing and Gathering Village from the Late Eastern Woodlands of North America
Richard S. Meindl, Robert P. Mensforth, and C. Owen Lovejoy