Описание: "Breaks new ground regarding how to think about colonial encounters in innovative ways that pay attention to a wide range of issues from health and demography to identity formations and adaptation."--Debra L. Martin, coeditor of The Bioarchaeology of Violence "Amply demonstrates the breadth and variability of the impact of colonialism."--Ken Nystrom, State University of New York at New Paltz
European expansion into the New World fundamentally altered indigenous populations. The collision between East and West led to the most recent human adaptive transition that spread around the world. Paradoxically, these are some of the least scientifically understood processes of the human past. Representing a new generation of contact and colonialism studies, this volume expands on the traditional focus on the health of conquered peoples by considering how extraordinary biological and cultural transformations were incorporated into the human body and reflected in behavior, identity, and adaptation.
By examining changes in diet, mortuary practices, and diseases, these globally diverse case studies demonstrate that the effects of conquest reach further than was ever thought before--to both the colonized and the colonizers. People on all sides of colonial contact became entangled in cultural and biological transformations of social identities, foodways, social structures, and gene pools at points of contact and beyond. Contributors to this volume illustrate previously unknown and variable effects of colonialism by analyzing skeletal remains and burial patterns from never-before-studied regions in the Americas to the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. The result is the first step toward a new synthesis of archaeology and bioarchaeology.
Contributors Rosabella Alvarez-Calderon - Elliot H. Blair - Maria Fernanda Boza - Michele R. Buzon - Romina Casali - Mark N. Cohen - Danielle N. Cook - Marie Elaine Danforth - J. Lynn Funkhouser - Catherine Gaither - Pamela Garcia Laborde- Ricardo A. Guichon - Rocio Guichon Fernandez - Heather Guzik - Amanda R. Harvey - Barbara T. Hester - Dale L. Hutchinson - Kristina Killgrove - Haagen D. Klaus - Clark Spencer Larsen - Alan G. Morris - Melissa S. Murphy - Alejandra Ortiz - Megan A. Perry - Emily S. Renschler - Isabelle Ribot - Melisa A. Salerno - Matthew C. Sanger - Paul W. Sciulli - Stuart Tyson Smith - Christopher M. Stojanowski - David Hurst Thomas - Victor D. Thompson - Vera Tiesler - Jason Toohey - Lauren A. Winkler - Pilar Zabala
Автор: Cristina I. Tica, Debra L. Martin Название: Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands ISBN: 1683400844 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781683400844 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13794.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Frontiers and territorial borders are places of contested power where societies collide, interact, and interconnect. Using bioanthropological case studies from around the world, this volume explores how people in the past created, maintained, or changed their identities while living on the edge between two or more different spheres of influence. Essays in this volume examine borderland settings in cultural contexts that include Roman Egypt, Iron Age Italy, eleventh-century Iceland, and the precontact American Great Basin and Southwest. Contributors look at isotope data, skeletal stress markers, craniometric and dental metric information, mortuary arrangements, and other evidence to examine how frontier life can affect health and socioeconomic status. Illustrating the many meanings and definitions of frontiers and borderlands, they question assumptions about the relationships between people, place, and identity. As national borders continue to ignite controversy in today’s society and politics, the research presented here is more important than ever. The long history of people who have lived in borderland areas helps us understand the challenges of adapting to these dynamic and often violent places. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives , edited by Clark Spencer Larsen
Описание: This book is the first of its kind, combining international perspectives on the current ethical considerations and challenges facing bioarchaeologists in the recovery, analysis, curation, and display of human remains.
Автор: Redfern Название: Injury and Trauma in Bioarchaeology ISBN: 0521115736 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521115735 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9821.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides a critical examination of the sources of social science, clinical and archaeological evidence that bioarchaeologists use to study injury in past communities. Redfern explores the consequences of violence in a bioarchaeological context, highlighting how its evidence can shed new light on the hierarchies and social relationships of past societies.
"Using subadult skeletons from the Deccan Chalcolithic period of Indian prehistory, along with archaeological and paleoclimate data, this volume makes an important contribution to understanding the effects of ecological change on demography and childhood growth during the second millennium B.C. in peninsular India."--Michael Pietrusewsky, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
In the context of current debates about global warming, archaeology contributes important insights for understanding environmental changes in prehistory, and the consequences and responses of past populations to them.
In Indian archaeology, climate change and monsoon variability are often invoked to explain major demographic transitions, cultural changes, and migrations of prehistoric populations. During the late Holocene (1400-700 B.C.), agricultural communities flourished in a semiarid region of the Indian subcontinent, until they precipitously collapsed. Gwen Robbins Schug integrates the most recent paleoclimate reconstructions with an innovative analysis of skeletal remains from one of the last abandoned villages to provide a new interpretation of the archaeological record of this period.
Robbins Schug's biocultural synthesis provides us with a new way of looking at the adaptive, social, and cultural transformations that took place in this region during the first and second millennia B.C. Her work clearly and compellingly usurps the climate change paradigm, demonstrating the complexity of human-environmental transformations. This original and significant contribution to bioarchaeological research and methodology enriches our understanding of both global climate change and South Asian prehistory.
A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen
Описание: This handbook examines human responses to climatic and environmental changes in the past, their impacts on disease patterns, nutritional status, migration, and interpersonal violence. Bioarchaeology provides direct evidence of the human experience of past climate and environmental changes.
Автор: Megan A. Perry Название: Bioarchaeology and Behavior: The People of the Ancient Near East ISBN: 0813064783 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813064789 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3129.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While mortuary ruins have long fascinated archaeologists and art historians interested in the cultures of the Near East and eastern Mediterranean, the human skeletal remains contained in the tombs of this region have garnered less attention. In Bioarchaeology and Behavior, Megan Perry presents a collection of essays that aim a spotlight on the investigation of the ancient inhabitants of the circum-Mediterranean area.Composed of eight diverse papers, this volume synthesizes recent research on human skeletal remains and their archaeological and historical contexts in this region. Utilizing an environmental, social, and political framework, the contributors present scholarly case studies on such topics as the region’s mortuary archaeology, genetic investigations of migration patterns, and the ancient populations’ health, disease, and diet.Other key anthropological issues addressed in this volume include the effects of the domestication of plants and animals, the rise of state-level formations, and the role of religion in society. Ultimately, this collection will provide anthropologists, archaeologists, and bioarchaeologists with an important foundation for future research in the Near East and eastern Mediterranean.
Introduction: Building a Bioarchaeology of Care.- 1. Providing a context: thinking and theory in the bioarchaeology of care.- SECTION ONE: Case studies of caregiving: testing the boundaries of bioarchaeology of care research.- 2. Using the Index of Care on a Bronze-Age teenager with poliomyelitis or cerebral palsy: from speculation to strong inference.- 3. Cared for or outcast? A case for continuous care in pre-contact U.S. Southwest.- 4. The potential and challenges of constructing a bioarchaeology of care for a person with leprosy in the Late Medieval Period.- 5. Dealing with difference: the osteobiographies of two health-challenged women from medieval Poland.- 6. Surviving trepanation: approaching the relationship of violence and the care of war wounds through a case study from prehistoric Peru.- 7. Inferring disability and care provision in late prehistoric Tennessee.- 8. A post-mortem evaluation of the degree of mobility in an individual with severe kyphoscoliosis using direct digital radiography (DR) and multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT).- SECTION TWO: New horizons in bioarchaeology of care theory and practice.- 9. Mummy studies and the soft tissue evidence of care.- 10. The bioarchaeological evidence for elder care in Roman Britain.- 11. Caring for bodies or simply saving souls: The emergence of institutional care in Spanish Colonial America.- 12. Potential applications of the bioarchaeology of care methodological approach for historic institutionalized populations.- 13. Modeling care in prehistory through an analysis of hunter-gatherer social systems.- 14. Digitised Diseases: seeing beyond the specimen, understanding disease and disability in the past.- 15. What moral and ethical considerations should inform bioarchaeology of care analysis?.- 16. Highlighting the importance of the past: public engagement and communication from a bioarchaeology of care perspective.- CONCLUSION.- 17. The bioarchaeology of care: current status and future directions.
Автор: Ryan P. Harrod; Debra L. Martin Название: Bioarchaeology of Climate Change and Violence ISBN: 1461492386 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461492382 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The goal of this monograph is to emphasize with empirical data the complexity of the relationship between climate change and violence. Case studies are used to reconstruct the responses and short and long-term adaptations made by groups before, during and after dramatic changes in weather and climate.
Описание: Encountering evidence of postmortem examinations- dissection or autopsy in historic skeletal collections is relativelyrare, but recently there has been an increase in the number of reportedinstances. And much of what has been evaluated has been largely descriptiveand historical. The Bioarchaeology ofDissection and Autopsy brings together in a single volume the skeletal evidence ofpostmortem examination in the United States. Ranging from the earlycolonial period to the early 1900’s, from a coffeehouse at ColonialWilliamsburg to a Quaker burial vault in lower Manhattan, the contributions to this volume demonstrate the interpretive significance of a historically andtheoretically contextualizedbioarchaeology. The authors employ a wide range of perspectives, demonstrating how bioarchaeological evidence can be used to address a widerange of themes including social identity and marginalization, racialization,the nature of the body and fragmentation, and the emergence of medical practiceand authority in the United States.?
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